Crime : Page 44
February 2, 2022
Ohio-based pharmaceutical distributor, Cardinal Health, Inc., has agreed to pay $13,125,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying upfront discounts to its physician practice customers, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
January 26, 2022
Financiers of the Provincial Command of Foggia, following an investigation coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Foggia, have performed 8 personal precautionary measures (2 house arrest and 6 disqualifications) against public administrators and persons in charge of public service of the Municipality of Peschici, as well as entrepreneurs and professionals.
January 25, 2022
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a $600,000 agreement with EyeMed that resolves a 2020 data breach that compromised the personal information of approximately 2.1 million consumers nationwide, including 98,632 in New York state.
January 24, 2022
On 22 December 2021 the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, the Division of Cartels issued a decision, by which it imposed fines in the total amount of EUR 32 956 on two undertakings for concluding a cartel agreement.
January 24, 2022
UOKiK President Tomasz Chróstny issued two decisions concerning agreements limiting competition between truck dealers.
January 21, 2022
FINRA has fined Credit Suisse Securities $9 million for failing to comply with securities laws and rules designed to protect investors, including the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Customer Protection Rule and FINRA rules requiring firms to disclose potential conflicts of interest when issuing research reports.
January 20, 2022
A Florida man pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Florida to a $6.9 million conspiracy to defraud Medicare by paying kickbacks and bribes to obtain doctors’ orders for medically unnecessary lab tests that were then billed to Medicare.
January 18, 2022
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has imposed fines against Mastercard, allpay, Advanced Payment Solutions (APS), Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) and Sulion after concluding that the five parties infringed competition law by agreeing not to compete or poach each other’s customers in the prepaid cards market in Great Britain.
January 17, 2022
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued two infringement notices, totalling $26,640, to Melbourne-based company Ezy Company Pty Ltd (trading as Ezy Vapes) for alleged importation breaches relating to COVID-19 rapid antigen tests and nicotine vaping products.
January 17, 2022
Three major Langkawi Ro-Ro operators have been fined by the Malaysia Competition Commission (“MyCCâ€) for forming a price fixing cartel in relation to the increase in fares for vehicle ransportation via Ro-Ro vesselsbetween Langkawi and Kuala Perlis and vice versa.
January 12, 2022
Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. has pleaded guilty to a second violation of probation imposed as a result of its 2017 criminal conviction for environmental crimes because it failed to establish and maintain an independent internal investigative office.
January 6, 2022
On December 28, 2021, the CNIL\'s restricted committee issued Slimpay a fine of €180,000 for insufficiently protecting users\' personal data and failing to inform them of a data breach.