Tag: Price Fixing
US: Gilead hit with antitrust suit over price-fixing HIV drugs
Gilead and its alleged co-conspirators Bristol-Myers Squibb, Japan Tobacco, and Johnson & Johnson have been accused of engaging in a long-running scheme...
US: Former Air Cargo exec extradited from Italy for price-fixing
Maria Christina “Meta” Ullings, the former senior vice president of cargo sales and marketing for Martinair NV (Martinair Cargo) and a Dutch...
US: Financial Firms to pay $386M to settle price-fixing allegations
Thirteen large financial firms are agreeing to pay US$337 million to settle claims by Pennsylvania's treasury department and about a dozen other...
Germany: BMW sues air conditioning suppliers over price fixing
BMW is suing two of its suppliers over price fixing on air conditioning components, the German carmaker said on Wednesday.
US: Norwegian salmon giants receive US subpoenas in price-fixing probe
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) will subpoena Mowi as part of a criminal investigation into alleged price-fixing of Atlantic salmon markets,...
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...
