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Three Florida-based promotional products distributors are facing federal criminal charges for allegedly conspiring to rig bids for sales of branded merchandise to the United States Army over a five-year span.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) has imposed financial penalties totalling RM1.54mil on eight companies for their involvement in bid rigging involving government procurement.

KUALA LUMPUR: Eight firms have been fined a total of RM1,548,192.35 after being found guilty of bid rigging conduct involving four IT-related projects.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — The Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) has imposed financial penalties totalling RM1.54 million on eight companies for their involvement in bid rigging...

Firms formed two cartels to manipulate four information technology projects worth RM1.92 million.

EFFECTIVE leniency programmes may hold the key to resolving long-standing cartel issues in Malaysia, which are plaguing transparent business bidding processes in both public and private projects. A leniency programme is recognised by anti-competition experts as the most important investigative tool to detect cartel activities, where an individual or company confesses that they have participated in price fixing and bid rigging and provides full disclosure to the authorities, for which they may re...

A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Georgia returned an indictment charging military contractors with an alleged fraud scheme involving government contracts totaling over $7 million.

Chicago, IL, June 22, 2022—Commercial Carpet Consultants Inc., a Chicago-based commercial flooring contractor, and its former president, Jerry P. Watson, have been charged for a long-running conspiracy to rig bids and fix prices for commercial flooring products and services, according to The United States Department of Justice.

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas returned an indictment charging a military contractor for rigging bids on public military contracts in Texas and Michigan and defrauding the United States.

US Supreme Court Requests Solicitor General’s Views in FCA Rule 9(b) Context - On May 16, 2022, the US Supreme Court requested a brief from the US Solicitor General on...