Crime : Page 54
June 30, 2021
The New York City Commission on Human Rights has fined Fox News $1 million, the largest penalty in its history, for violations of laws protecting against sexual harassment and job retaliation.
June 28, 2021
Euro Corporation Limited (Euro) has been fined $361,000 for making false or misleading and unsubstantiated representations relating to its earthquake grade steel mesh products, known as SE615.
June 28, 2021
Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Limited has agreed to pay $18,375,000 to resolve criminal charges stemming from a scheme to pay bribes to officials in Brazil in exchange for an approximately $190 million contract to design a gas-to-chemicals complex.
June 28, 2021
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an agreement with Johnson & Johnson — the parent company of Janssen Pharmaceuticals — that will deliver up to $230 million to New York state, in the largest monetary settlement ever secured by Attorney General James.
June 28, 2021
Gulating Court of Appeal agrees with the Norwegian Competition Authority that Telenor has abused its dominant position in the Norwegian mobile market and upholds fine of 788 million NOK.
June 24, 2021
Apache has been fined £400,000 ($556,000) after a failure to provide a worker with written safety procedures for the depressurisation of an oil well led to the release of 1000 kilograms of gas at its Beryl Alpha platform in the UK North Sea.
June 21, 2021
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) imposed a fine of HUF 100 million ($333,000) on a Slovenian undertaking for taking advantage of the fears surrounding the COVID-19 virus to promote their disinfectant product with false promises and without the appropriate licences.
June 21, 2021
The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) convicted the Brazilian Labour Management Body for Ports in the cities of Belém and Vila do Conde (OGMO-BVC), in addition to seven port operators, for anticompetitive practices.
June 21, 2021
Houston, Texas-based CITGO Petroleum Corporation has agreed to pay $19.69 million to resolve federal and state claims for natural resource damages under the Oil Pollution Act and the Louisiana Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act.
June 15, 2021
A French court has ordered Ikea to pay a fine of €1m (£860,000; $1.2m) after the Swedish furniture chain was found guilty of spying on staff in France.
June 14, 2021
The Norwegian Competition Authority has imposed a fine of NOK 3 million on St1 Norge AS for breach of disclosure requirements when it took control over a petrol station belonging to a competing chain.
June 8, 2021
Bank Julius Baer admitted in federal court in Brooklyn that it conspired to launder over $36 million in bribes through the United States to soccer officials with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and other soccer federations.