Canadian businessman John Bennett will be extradited to the US face bid-rigging, fraud, conspiracy, and kick-back charges, the BC Court of Appeal held recently. The charges stem from a bid by the company he founded, Bennett Environmental Inc., to work on an environmental cleanup project in New Jersey. Bennett Environmental was an environmental soil remediation company. Beginning in 2001, it won a series of contracts to remediate soils at a major environmental cleanup in the US known as the Federal Creosote site. An investigation by the US Justice Department’s Antitrust Division revealed that bidders on the project, including Bennett Environmental, ... [more] Full article
Criminal charges have been laid against one company and six individuals for their alleged roles in a bid-rigging conspiracy. The conspiracy relates to federal government contracts for the supply of ... [more] Full article
Ocean freight companies ECU Line Canada Inc. and Overseas Container Forwarding Inc., and two of ECU’s executives have pleaded guilty to price fixing. They participated in a cartel that fixed surcharges ... [more] Full article
Panasonic Corporation was fined $4.7 million after pleading guilty to rigging bids for certain types of switches and sensors supplied to Toyota for various cars, the Competition Bureau announced today. ... [more] Full article
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