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May 30, 2020
The makers of Voltaren pain gels have been fined $AU4.5 million by Australia\'s consumer watchdog for passing a product off as being more effective at relieving arthritis symptoms.
May 29, 2020
Two companies were fined $1 million each on May 27 after they pleaded guilty to violating clean air laws in relation to a 2016 chlorine gas leak in Atchison, Kansas. Harcros Chemicals and MGP Ingredients violated the Clean Air Act after they caused the gas leak which resulted in a large toxic cloud covering the city.
May 28, 2020
Attorney General Mark Brnovich and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) announced a Maricopa County Judge ordered the owner of Hillside Mine to pay $2,375,211.74 in restitution for ADEQ’s assessment and remediation of environmental damage to Boulder Creek in Yavapai County.
May 24, 2020
Facebook Inc. will pay a $9 million penalty after the Competition Bureau concluded that the company made false or misleading claims about the privacy of Canadians’ personal information on Facebook and Messenger.
May 20, 2020
Iran\'s judiciary on Tuesday announced that an Iranian couple has been sentenced to death for economic corruption and money laundering, state TV reported.
May 20, 2020
One of the biggest payment processing companies and its former executive will pay more than $40.2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges they knowingly processed payments and laundered, or assisted laundering of, credit card transactions for scams that targeted hundreds of thousands of consumers.
May 18, 2020
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged New York-based credit rating agency Morningstar Credit Ratings LLC for violating a conflict of interest rule designed to separate credit ratings and analysis from sales and marketing efforts.
May 10, 2020
An Indonesian court on Friday jailed Emirsyah Satar, a former chief executive of Garuda Indonesia, for bribery and money laundering related to procurement of planes and engines from Airbus and Rolls-Royce, his laywer said.
May 9, 2020
Herbalife Nutrition Ltd will likely pay U.S. authorities $123 million to settle bribery allegations related to the company’s business in China, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday.
May 8, 2020
Apotex Corp., a generic pharmaceutical company headquartered in Florida, was charged with fixing the price of the generic drug pravastatin, the Department of Justice announced.
May 8, 2020
Biomin America, an animal nutrition company, has paid a $257,862 penalty to settle charges it violated US sanctions by selling products manufactured by subsidiaries outside the United States to Cuba, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said in a press release.
May 2, 2020
Blue Bell Creameries L.P. agreed to plead guilty to charges it shipped contaminated products linked to a 2015 listeriosis outbreak, and the company’s former president was charged in connection with a scheme to cover up the incident, the Justice Department announced.