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by authority- High Court Auckland (Anklage: Commerce Commission) €273,179 100 % · 1 case
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| Q4 2024 | 1 | €273,179 |
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1 case
18 Dec 2024 MaxBuild LimitedMaxBuild: 500,000 NZD in New Zealand's first criminal cartel case €273,179
The construction company coordinated its bids with a competitor in tenders run by the NZ Transport Agency (national transport authority; Northern Corridor Improvement Project) and Auckland Transport (refurbishment of the Middlemore Bridge). After guilty pleas to four charges of price fixing, the High Court in Auckland imposed a fine of 500,000 NZD on 18 December 2024 in the country's first criminal cartel prosecution; without the mitigating factors, around 1 million NZD would have been appropriate according to the court.
Cover bids in favour of a competitor have been a criminal offence in New Zealand since 2021 – tender teams must never coordinate prices with competitors.
Bid rigging and cover pricing in public tenders
- Authority / court
- High Court Auckland (Anklage: Commerce Commission)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Commerce Act 1986, s 30 (Kartellverbot, seit 8. April 2021 strafbewehrt)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty pleas; the court took account of several mitigating factors, without which around 1 million NZD would have been appropriate.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 18 Dec 2024
Original amount 500,000 NZD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Dec 2024.
- Commerce Commission: “Cheating the system” – sentencing in country’s first criminal cartel case (18.12.2024) Press release of an authority
- Commerce Commission: Cheating the system: Bid-rigging of roading contracts sees firm fined (23.10.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link