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Comment: Australian criminal-cartel prosecutions face an uncertain future

By James Panichi and Ryan Cropp
  • 29 Feb 2024 06:41
  • 29 Feb 2024 06:41
Another day, another chance for Australia’s antitrust watchdog to put on a brave face about its criminal-cartel enforcement program, which late last week again failed to secure an actual jail term for price fixers caught in the act.
“The sentences handed down today should serve as a strong reminder that

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James Panichi

Senior Editor, Asia Pacific


James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the European operation of US political website Politico as an investigative reporter specializing in governance, transparency and lobbying.

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