E s was a triumph for the Cartel: Last summer, after about five years of investigation, testimonies and house searches, any cartel could finally present results. On a large scale sausage manufacturers had agreed prices. The penalty was juicy: Against 21 sausage maker and 33 executives fines a total of 338 million euros were imposed
Well, half a year later, shows up. At least one has obviously sent from the affair drawn, such as the “Business Week” reported. The sausage Baron Clemens Tönnies, also known as chairman of the board of Bundesliga FC Schalke 04, seems its share of punishment – after all, 120 million euros – not to have to pay. How did he only managed? After all, he bounces the cartel by about one-third of the penal sum
million penalty imposed
The lawyers of Böklunder and Konecke -. Both sausage makers belong to Tönnies empire – were the cartel investigations know that the company no longer exists. The entries were deleted from the commercial register. Now can no longer be collected for the Cartel a bitter defeat, because the fines of around 70 million euros in Böklunder and around 50 million euros in Konecke. Whether the manufacturers have successors, it is highly questionable on the file, writes the “Business Week”. In plain English: The Cartel can not get the fines because the company no longer exist. They have virtually dissolved in Tönnies empire in air.
New Blueprint
Officially in a large-scale restructuring of the Group to Mill Group, the sausage empire Tonnies synergy effects cancel. But the leaders are honest: “Due to restructuring a cartel can be omitted or can the defense capabilities are extended by company,” says Matthias Blaum from Düsseldorf Hengeler Mueller, who has arranged the new corporate structure in order to mill
<. p class = "font"> For the cartel guardians of that bitter setback could still draw large circles. For Tönnies should be able to compete with this move, then the action would the blueprint to escape the horrendous fines Cartel Office.
Other companies escaped the punishment
In the past, punishment had not been exaggerated because the succession was disputed. Thus, the insurance company HDI Gerling had a fine over 19 million euros do not pay . The Supreme Court had the right group given since the fine – then imposed on the independent company Gehrling -. did not have to be borne by the merged Group
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