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Nine firms raided over cartel

Fair Trade Commission investigators raided on Tuesday the Hokkaido offices of Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and six other electrical machinery makers over an alleged bid-rigging cartel, sources said. The six other firms are Fuji... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Tue, Jun 10 2008

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