Canada:
$118,000 Fine For Sewer Bid-rigging
15 February 2016
Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP
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Chalifoux Sani Laurentides Inc. was fined $118,000 after
pleading guilty to participating in a bid-rigging scheme for about
worth of municipal sewer services contracts in Quebec, the
Competition Bureau announced recently. Chalifoux had bid on over
$2.5 million worth of contracts and won contracts worth
$594,442.
Five companies and one individual have pleaded guilty to rigging
bids for about $3.3 million worth of sewer contracts. To date,
total fines have reached $268,000. and the individual was ordered
to do 100hours of community service.
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