STORY: Drug investigators or drug criminals? A former top Mexican security official is on trial in New York. Genaro Garcia Luna is said to have accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel, according to US prosecutors. Garcia Luna headed the Mexican federal police in the early 2000s and was Minister of Public Security from 2006 to 2012. To keep up appearances, he made some arrests and confiscated drugs, prosecutor Philipp Pilmar said on Monday. In reality, he...
Andreas Mundt is not afraid to take on the really big ones. The President of the Federal Cartel Office has already conducted proceedings against Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon in recent years - and has repeatedly imposed conditions that secure competition and ultimately benefit consumers. Now the German competition authority from Bonn is taking on another well-known US group - the financial service provider Paypal.Proceedings will be initiated against Paypal's European subsidiary, the cartel office announced on Monday. It will...
privacy Cartel Office warns Google's conditions for data processing According to the Federal Cartel Office, the Google group Alphabet must give its users more options when processing their data. photo © Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa The Bundeskartellamt has long been concerned about the way Google handles user data. Now there is a warning. But are the authorities allowed to say it at all? According to the Federal Cartel Office, the Google group Alphabet must give its users more options when processing their...
Status: 01/11/2023 11:48 a.m Google should give its users more choices in the processing of their private data in the future. The Federal Cartel Office demands this. So far, the group has processed user data across services. The Federal Cartel Office has warned the Internet giant Google. The Bonn competition authorities demanded that the subsidiary of the US group Alphabet adjust its data processing conditions: "Google's business model is fundamentally based on the processing of user data," said Andreas Mundt,...
Status: 06.01.2023 03:14 Mexican security forces have arrested a son of former drug cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Suspected gang members and security forces then fought for hours. After the arrest of a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, suspected gang members and security forces fought for hours in northwestern Mexico. Criminals blocked buses and trucks on the streets of the city of Culiacán and set the vehicles on fire, television broadcasts showed. Numerous shots were...
Sinaloa cartel: Son of "El Chapo" caught in Mexico Violence erupted after "El Chapo's" son, Ovidio Guzmán, was arrested. photo © Martin Urista/AP/dpa Soldiers arrest Ovidio Guzmán in his Sinaloa stronghold - then gang members shoot out with the military. Last time the government let him go - not this time. After the arrest of a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, suspected gang members and security forces fought for hours in northwestern Mexico. Criminals blocked buses...
Status: 06.01.2023 03:14 Mexican security forces have arrested a son of former drug cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Suspected gang members and security forces then fought for hours. After the arrest of a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, suspected gang members and security forces fought for hours in northwestern Mexico. Criminals blocked buses and trucks on the streets of the city of Culiacán and set the vehicles on fire, television broadcasts showed. Numerous shots were...
The US online giant Google has allayed the Bundeskartellamt's concerns about its Google News Showcase news service by making concessions. The Bonn competition authority announced on Wednesday that the proceedings against the search engine operator for the online news service had been completed. "We were concerned that comparable offers from other providers would be crowded out by Google News Showcase and that participating publishers would be unreasonably disadvantaged by Google," said Andreas Mundt, President of the Cartel Office. "Google has...
Interest rates, currencies, precious metal prices: there have been many adjustments that bankers have been able to tamper with in the past twenty years - mostly to enrich themselves and usually at the expense of customers. The dealers talked to each other about this, the management team supposedly rarely if ever noticed anything about it. In the end, numerous large financial institutions paid many billions of euros in penalties for illegal transactions. The most expensive offence: the manipulation of the...
Status: 01.12.2022 1:57 p.m Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen and Erfurter Pasta are among the major manufacturers of private labels in Germany. Nevertheless, the cartel office does not see competition as being endangered by the takeovers of Aldi and Lidl. The Bundeskartellamt has given the discounter Aldi and the Schwarz Group, which includes Lidl and Kaufland, the green light to take over food companies. Aldi Nord may, among other things, take over Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen GmbH and Vitaqua GmbH, and the Schwarz Group may...
