Crime : Page 88
November 19, 2019
The Commission in South Africa has referred to the Competition Tribunal for prosecution woodbased panel companies, KAP Diversified Industrial and Sonae Arauco South Africa, together with Steinhoff International Holdings, for cartel conduct.
November 18, 2019
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that national office supply retailer Office Depot will pay $900,000 to resolve the attorney general’s investigation into its deceptive computer repair sales practices.
November 14, 2019
The Louisiana Department of Health has agreed to resolve allegations that it submitted false and inflated Medicaid claims for long-term nursing home and hospice care, the Department of Justice announced.
November 12, 2019
Hong Kong\'s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has fined UBS AG (UBS) 400 million HK dollars (about 51.11 million U.S. dollars) for overcharging its clients over a decade and for related serious systemic internal control failures.
November 10, 2019
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order filing and settling charges against Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Japan Ltd. (RtM Japan) for engaging in multiple acts of spoofing contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange for platinum and palladium futures.
November 10, 2019
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order filing and settling charges against Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. for violating multiple swap dealer business conduct standards.
November 8, 2019
Under a proposed settlement announced by the United States, the State of Michigan and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, The Dow Chemical Company will implement and fund an estimated $77 million in natural resource restoration projects intended to compensate the public for injuries to natural resources caused by the release of hazardous substances from Dow’s Midland, Michigan facility.
November 8, 2019
We asked Engie for documents and data regarding contracts concluded with Gazpromexplain Marek Niechciał President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.
November 8, 2019
FINRA announced that Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated (Merrill Lynch), Raymond James and Associates, Inc. (RJA), and Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. (RJFS) have agreed to pay a total of approximately $12 million in restitution to customers who incurred excess fees on their investments in 529 savings plans based on the firms’ failures to reasonably supervise 529 plan share class recommendations.
November 8, 2019
The High Court has fined the demolition company CMP Nedrivning ApS DKK 5 million and two members of the company’s management each DKK 125,000.
November 4, 2019
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Plant Board met on October 23 and fined a Missouri farmer $105,000 for nine violations of Arkansas laws and regulations regarding the use of dicamba in 2018.
November 3, 2019
Konkurencijos taryba found that the company Neste Lietuva infringed the Law on Advertising by spreading misleading advertising claims about Neste fuel. The company was fined EUR 8,688.