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2022: The owner of the company received a term for participating in the cartel for 58 million rubles

In February 2022, the Industrial District Court Perm found two heads of medical equipment suppliers guilty of cartel conspiracy. They were convicted of restricting competition with the extraction of income on a large scale using their official position (paragraph "a" of part 2 of article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

According to the press service of the regional prosecutor's office, from December 2016 to January 2019, entrepreneurs participated in electronic bidding. At the same time, out of self-interest, they entered into agreements that help limit competition in the market for the sale of goods and the provision of services.

In total, the defendants took part in 29 auctions in order to extract income in the amount of more than 58 million rubles. They pleaded guilty.

In Perm, the owners of medical equipment suppliers received deadlines for the cartel for 58 million rubles

The court sentenced everyone to 1 year 6 months in prison with a suspended probation period. The names of the convicts are not disclosed, but they were previously written about in the media.

We are talking about the owners of suppliers of medical products LLC Argos and LLC Medicine Technology Veronika Konovalova and Denis Stepanov. Earlier, the OFAS in the Perm Territory found four distributors of medical products, including Argos LLC and Medicine Technology LLC, guilty of violation under paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Art. 11 of the Law "On Protection of Competition" (ban on agreements restricting competition).

According to OFAS, companies used a single infrastructure and templates to submit applications, and at the auction, price offers instead of participants sent robotic systems, imitating competition. At the same time, the initial maximum contract price decreased by no more than 0.5%. The medical institutions of the Perm Territory - a regional oncological dispensary, a skin and venereological dispensary, a children's clinical hospital and other medical institutions - became affected by the actions of the participants in the anticompetitive agreement.^[1]

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