The Commonwealth Director of Prosecutions has withdrawn charges against Citigroup, Deutsche bank and senior banking executives relating to criminal cartel allegations.

Alkaloids of Australia Pty Ltd has pleaded guilty to three charges of criminal cartel conduct and has admitted a further seven offences.

ANZ, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and six senior banking executives were today committed to the Federal Court of Australia for trail on criminal cartel charges.

Criminal cartel charges have been laid against pharmaceutical ingredient company, Alkaloids of Australia Pty Ltd, and its former export manager, Christopher Kenneth Joyce. Each have been charged with 33 criminal offences.

The ACCC’s criminal cartel case against banks and investment bankers resumes later this month - this time in Penrith Local Court to facilitate social distancing.

Shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean AS (WWO) has entered a guilty plea to criminal cartel conduct in the Federal Court today.

The CDPP has laid charges against a former general manager at BlueScope Steel, alleging he incited ‘the obstruction of a Commonwealth official in the performance of their functions’ relating to an ACCC investigation into alleged cartel conduct.

The CDPP has laid charges against Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean AS (WWO), a Norwegian-based global shipping company, alleging criminal cartel conduct.