The Gertal and Itau (the Trivalor), Eurest, the Uniself, Ica and Nordigal and Sodexo signed two thousand public contracts worth 700 million euros.

In 2007, the Competition Authority (CA) has opened an investigation to determine allegations said to have been created a cartel to provide meals to public canteens. Institutions such as hospitals and chambers millionaires signed contracts with a number of companies and the business was to undermine the state.

Seven companies, five different economic groups, have been accused of belonging to the cartel. These were the Gertal and Itau (the Trivalor), Eurest, the Uniself, Ica and Nordigal and Sodexo, who signed two thousand public contracts worth 700 million euros

The market was controlled by these companies which combined price and parted existing customers together. The new ones were played freely.

The application was declared prescribed, just less than a month due to the “high degree of judicial litigation with multiple incidents raised by 15 defendants, both during the administrative procedure and during the judicial phase, “advanced a fountain Journal News. Before prescribing the CA ordered the companies to pay a fine of 14 million euros and the managers of the respective to pay 20 thousand euros.

It is known that the Gertal earned 129 million with meals in schools. The Itau won 14 million in Gaia hospital. Eurest signed deals worth 79 million. The Uniself profited in providing meals to prisons. The Ica and Nordigal worked with municipalities. And Sodeco signed a contract with the Curry Cabral Hospital and

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Source:. Noticiasaominuto.com