OTTAWA—An additional individual, Shell Canada retailer Donald Darby, was fined C$10,000 ($9,700) on Jan. 9 for his role in a criminal conspiracy to fix gasoline prices in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
The Competition Bureau leveled charges in June 2008 and July 2010 against a total of 38 individuals and 14 companies of fixing gas prices at the pump in the Quebec communities of Victoriaville, Thetford Mines, Magog, and Sherbrooke. Including the latest sentence, 14 individuals and 6 companies have pleaded guilty in the case, receiving fines totaling more than C$2.8 million ($2.7 million). Of the 14 individuals who have pleaded guilty to ...
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