Tag: Price Fixing
UK: Construction cartel fined £36M by competition watchdog
Three construction firms have been fined more than £36 million (US$31 million) by the UK’s competition watchdog for price-fixing.
US: Banks win Mexican Bond price-fixing suit dismissal
A US judge on Monday, September 30, dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against several large banks for allegedly rigging the market...
US: StarKist ordered to pay $100 million criminal fine
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered StarKist. to pay a $100 million fine in a canned tuna price-fixing conspiracy involving...
Switzerland: Construction cartels fined millions over price fixing
The Federal Competition Commission (Comco) has wrapped up its last two investigations into an illegal price-fixing cartel in the construction industry in...
Russia: Samsung fined for price fixing
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has been slapped with a fine by the Russian antitrust body for violating the nation’s fair...
US: Judge dismisses antitrust suits against pork companies
On Thursday, August 8, a federal judge in Minneapolis dismissed antitrust lawsuits accusing several US pork companies of conspiring to limit supply in order...
US: Tuna price-fixing case get class action status
Plaintiffs suing the Big Three tuna companies—Bumble Bee Foods, StarKist, and Chicken of the Sea—over alleged price fixing among the competitors have been granted...
US: Japanese manufacturer pleads guilty to price-fixing in disk drives
NHK Spring, a Japanese manufacturer of suspension assemblies used in hard disk drives, has agreed to plead guilty for its role in a global...
EU: Regulators seek to help victims calculate cartel harm
Victims of cartels may find it easier to seek damages from companies guilty of price fixing after European Union antitrust regulators released on Monday...
US: E-Commerce Company pleads guilty to antitrust charge
Gennex pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional products sold online to customers in the United States. Gennex Media’s president, Akil...
