poniedziałek, 6 kwietnia 2015

U.S. announces first antitrust e-commerce prosecution

A zoomed image of a computer monitor shows a website selling button clipart for online shops in Vienna The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division on Monday announced its first prosecution specifically targeting Internet commerce, saying a man has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to illegally fix the prices of posters he sold online. David Topkins was accused of conspiring with other poster sellers to manipulate prices on Amazon.com Inc's Amazon Marketplace, a website for third-party sellers, from Sept. 2013 to Jan. 2014, according to papers filed in San Francisco federal court. The Justice Department said Topkins also agreed to pay a $20,000 criminal fine and cooperate with its probe. No one answered a phone call to a David Topkins listed in San Francisco.








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