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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Mitsui & Co.
Current Parent Company: Mitsui
Penalty: $35,666,666
Year: 2002
Date: August 9, 2002
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: price-fixing or anti-competitive practices
Mega-Scandal: Price Fixing
Violation Description: Degussa, Rhone-Poulenc and Mitsui together agreed to pay $107 million to settle litigation alleging they engaged in a conspiracy to fix the price of methionine, an animal feed additive. Court documents did not specify how much each company would pay. Here we assume they each paid one-third of the total.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 3:00md1311
Case Name: In re: Methionine Antitrust Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: Japan
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: diversified
Specific Industry of Current Parent: diversified
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