The Czech Competition Authority hands out penalties to five participants in a bid rigging cartel in the construction industry (Inzet)

Penalty for first Czech Bid Rigging Case Confirmed by Court* Bid rigging has for a long time been a merely theoretical example of criminal liability in Czech Antitrust law without any actual cases decided. Until 2010 with the introduction of criminal liability for hard-core horizontal cartels, this was one of the very few cases of cartels where one could actually think of criminal liability of the acting persons. Following a police raid in 2006, however, the Czech Antitrust Office in 2010 (file No. S159/2009/KD) handed out penalties in the overall