Crime : Page 37
June 27, 2022
Samsung Electronics Australia has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $14 million in penalties after it admitted misleading consumers about the suitability of various Samsung Galaxy phones to be submerged in pool or sea water, in proceedings brought by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC).
June 27, 2022
The AdC (Portuguese Competition Authority) has sanctioned three supermarket chains – Auchan, Modelo Continente (Sonae Group), and Pingo Doce (Jerónimo Martins Group) – as well as their common supplier of cosmetics and personal care products Beiersdorf and one of its managers, for having participated in a scheme of price fixing on retail prices.
June 22, 2022
Glencore has pleaded guilty to seven bribery offences.
June 22, 2022
Officers of the CBA Regional Office in Poznań, under the supervision of the Wielkopolska Local Division of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption at the National Prosecutor\'s Office in Poznań, have been investigating invoking influence in state and local government institutions and undertaking to act as intermediaries in settling cases in exchange for financial gains.
June 20, 2022
A Florida man was arrested for allegedly distributing more than $230 million in adulterated HIV drugs that were ultimately dispensed to unsuspecting patients throughout the country.
June 17, 2022
Attorney General Ashley Moody helped secure more than $233 million through a multistate action alleging that a nationwide pharmaceutical company defrauded Medicaid.
June 17, 2022
The Bundeskartellamt has imposed fines totalling approx. 12.5 million euros against Aktien-Gesellschaft der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (Dillinger Hütte) and Hochtief Solutions for concluding illegal agreements within the context of award procedures.
June 15, 2022
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has imposed a fine of 150,000 euros on PZEM Energy, a Dutch energy producer, supplier, and trader, because it had failed to comply with the obligation to publish inside information.
June 13, 2022
Five subsidiaries of Westlake Chemical Corporation — Westlake Chemical OpCo, Westlake Petrochemicals, Westlake Polymers, Westlake Styrene, and Westlake Vinyls — have agreed to make upgrades and perform compliance measures estimated to cost $110 million to resolve allegations that they violated the Clean Air Act and state air pollution control laws at two of their petrochemical manufacturing facilities located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and one facility in Calvert City, Kentucky.
June 13, 2022
The Office for the Protection of Competition has concluded two administrative proceedings in the field of significant market power against the retail chain Hruška after the undertaking proposed commitments to compensate more than seventy suppliers.
June 9, 2022
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to various charges stemming from his sale of more than $2.7 million worth of various unregistered pesticides to numerous victims.
June 4, 2022
The U.S. business of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles pleaded guilty to criminal conspirac and will pay about $300 million in a plea agreement to resolve a multi-year U.S. Justice Department diesel emissions fraud probe.