Tag: Bid-Rigging
US: NY contractor exec pleads guilty to bid rigging
KEvin Schuler, a former executive with Buffalo, New York general contractor LPCiminelli, pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy for his part in an alleged...
US: Japan’s Maruyasu agrees to plead guilty to bid rigging
Japan’s Maruyasu Industries has agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of bid rigging, while other charges filed against it by the US...
US: Former La Joya housing director sentenced to 37 months for...
A judge on Wednesday, April 19, sentenced former La Joya school board Trustee Juan Jose "J.J." Garza to 37 months in federal prison for...
Japan: 4 companies indicted in maglev bid-rigging scandal
Tokyo prosecutors have indicted 4 leading construction companies—Taisei, Kajima, Obayashi and Shimizu—for alleged bid-rigging on a magnetic levitation (maglev) train project.
The prosecutors on Friday,...
Japan: Bullet train contractors arrested over bid-rigging
Tokyo prosecutors arrested executives from two of four major Japanese contractors suspected of involvement in bid rigging for construction work on the Tokyo-Osaka maglev...
US: Three men indicted in online real estate bid rigging investigation
A federal grand jury in West Palm Beach returned an indictment yesterday against three high-volume Florida real estate investors for conspiring to rig bids...
US: California real estate investor pleads guilty to bid rigging
As a January 2018 trial date looms for five real estate investors who were indicted in 2014 for conspiring to rig bids at public...
South Korea: KFTC fines shippers for collusion
South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Monday that it has imposed a combined ₩43 billion (US$37.8 million) in fines on nine global auto shipping companies...
Hong Kong: Decorators accused of bid rigging
Ten decoration and engineering companies in Hong Kong have been accused of breaching competition law by working together to fix prices and share the...
Romania: IT companies fined for bid-rigging
Two Romanian IT companies have received cumulative €1.75 million (US$2.06 million) fine for bid rigging public auctions. Siveco Romania and Intrarom were fine €1.2...
