Tag: Price Fixing
Australia: Air NZ loses price-fixing appeal in High Court
The High Court has dismissed an appeal by Air New Zealand and Garuda Indonesia against an earlier ruling the airlines had breached Australia’s competition...
US: Former StarKist exec charged with price fixing
A former tuna company executive faces one charge of conspiring with officials from other tuna companies to fix the price of canned seafood from...
US: Antitrust division unscathed in Trump’s budget proposal
In president Trump's new fiscal 2018 budget the antitrust division will not see any reductions, according to Bloomberg. The White House proposed a $1.1...
US: Feds and Wal-Mart allege canned tuna prices fixed
Executives of the most popular tuna brands in the US — Chicken of the Sea, Bumble Bee and StarKist — conspired regularly to keep...
Romania: Competition Council investigating health services for price fixing
The Competition Council has initiated an investigation into the health services that are not reimbursed by the National Health Insurance House and are paid...
US: Florida AG probing chicken price-fixing
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's office has opened an investigation into allegations made in civil lawsuits, filed last year in federal court in Chicago,...
US: Tuna company pleads guilty to price fixing
Bumble Bee Foods has agreed to plead guilty for its role in a conspiracy to fix the prices of shelf-stable tuna fish, such as...
EU: CJEU allows use of documents unrelated to investigation
The European Commission was allowed to use documents collected by police in a tax investigation to issue a cartel fine, the EU's top court...
Hong Kong: Regulator asks for price-fixing probe for petrol
Hong Kong’s antitrust regulator has said that its recent revelation of “highly unusual” practices in the petrol market could force oil companies to explain...
US: DoJ raids generics maker Perrigo in drug price-fixing probe
Perrigo Company said that search warrants were executed at its corporate offices linked to an ongoing investigation by the US Department of Justice Antitrust...