Bayer to Pay Fine for Rubber Price Fixing
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Germany&#39;s Bayer AG (BAYG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $4.7 million fine for taking part in a conspiracy to fix the prices of synthetic rubber, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday.
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Retailer agrees to pay compensation to customers in move to end long-running price-fixing saga
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German microchip giant Infineon Technologies agreed to plead guilty and to pay a 160 million dollar fine for participating in &quot;an international conspiracy to fix prices&quot; US officials said.
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By Jonathan D. Epstein  HSBC Bank USA agreed Wednesday to pay nearly $1 million in fines and reimbursement to settle a state lawsuit over a toxic chemical cleanup in Orange County in a case brought under the federal Superfund Act.
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DaimlerChrysler could face a &#36;640  million fine as a result of a bribery probe by the U.S. justice  department and the U.S. stock market regulator, German weekly  Der Spiegel said on Saturday.
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US insurance giant Marsh & McLennan is to pay $850m to settle charges that it conspired to rig the marketplace.
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Unipetrol (Czech Republic), petrochemical holding, was fined with EUR 17.5 mil, nearly CEK 500 mil, by the European Commission (EC). It was fined for its subsidiary Kaucuk (Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic), which should probably participate in the synthetic rubber market cartel.
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Supermarkets could face multi-million pound fines.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday proposed to fine BP Plc  $92,000 for safety violations at a Texas City refinery where 15 workers died in a 2005 explosion and fire.
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Biggest fine for US accounting firm will settle charges it mishandled Gemstar-TV Guide&#39;s books. WASHINGTON  - KPMG will pay $10 million -- the largest fine ever against a US accounting firm -- to
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The European Union's top competition regulator Neelie Kroes stepped up her anti-cartel campaign by hitting five companies in the rubber market with the EU's second-highest fine against a cartel.
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BOSTON, Aug. 29 -- Schering-Plough Corp. on Tuesday agreed to pay $435 million and plead guilty to conspiracy to settle a federal investigation into marketing of its drugs for unapproved uses and overcharging Medicaid for certain drugs.
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Former ImClone Systems Inc. Chief  Executive Sam Waksal has agreed to pay a $3 million civil  penalty to settle charges over the insider trading scandal that  also involved lifestyle entrepreneur Martha Stewart, U.S.  regulators said on Wednesday
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Agrochemical giant Monsanto agrees to pay $1.5m (Â£799,000)  in US penalties for bribing a high-level Indonesian official.
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European Union regulators fined German company William Prym GmbH&amp;Co. KG and Britain's Coats Holdings Ltd a total of 60 million euros (&#36;76.8 million) on Tuesday for running a cartel in the market for needles.
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Pfizer Inc. PFE.N on Friday said it  would take a third-quarter pretax charge of $369 million for a  settlement with plaintiffs who allege they were harmed by  products containing asbestos and other minerals once sold by a  Pfizer subsidiary.
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Purdue Pharma has agreed to pay $10 million to the state to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of dishonestly marketing the painkiller OxyContin in West Virginia.