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Alkaloids of Australia, former manager, face 33 price-fixing, bid rigging criminal charges

By James Panichi
  • 30 Nov 2020 19:34
  • 07 Nov 2021 23:38
Pharmaceutical company Alkaloids of Australia and its former export manager Christopher Kenneth Joyce have been hit by a criminal-cartel prosecution, with the country’s competition watchdog alleging that the company and the individual fixed prices and rigged bids for the supply of medication ingredients.
In a statement released today (see here),

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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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