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Where?
by authority- Competition Tribunal (Hongkong), auf Antrag der Competition Commission €2.77m 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by action- Fine €2.77m 100 % · 1 case
Who?
by sectorAll sectors
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q4 2023 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2025 | 1 | €2.77m |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
20 Jan 2025 Hong Kong Commercial Cleaning Services Limited, Man Shun Hong Kong & Kln Cleaning Company LimitedCleaning cartel in public housing tenders: company penalties of 22.26 million HKD €2.77m
In January 2025 the Competition Tribunal (Hong Kong's specialist competition court) imposed allegedly agreed penalties on two cleaning companies that, from at least May 2016 to August 2018, exchanged confidential bid information in 17 tenders of the Hong Kong Housing Authority (the public housing authority) for cleaning services at public housing estates (contract value around 180 million HKD) – price fixing under the First Conduct Rule (the ban on anti-competitive agreements); the case came to light through a complaint from a group that included cleaners at a housing estate. Hong Kong Commercial Cleaning Services Limited received 10,960,000 HKD, and Man Shun Hong Kong & Kln Cleaning Company Limited received 11,300,000 HKD on 20 January 2025. The amount and the facts have not been confirmed against the primary source.
Where competitors share offices, servers or staff, strict information barriers are needed – otherwise the exchange of bid data becomes a cartel.
Information exchange between competitors in public tenders
- Authority / court
- Competition Tribunal (Hongkong), auf Antrag der Competition Commission
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Competition Ordinance (Cap. 619), s. 6 (First Conduct Rule), s. 91 (Beteiligung), s. 93(1) (pecuniary penalty), ss. 101–102 (Disqualifikation)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Mitigating circumstances
- Cooperation discount of 9% for Hong Kong Commercial Cleaning (admission only after the trial dates had been fixed, less than five months before trial); for Man Shun a cooperation discount of 15% (admission before any witness statements were filed) and a further 20% reduction because the full penalty would have undermined its viability; payment in four and eight quarterly instalments respectively.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 20 Jan 2025
Original amount 22,260,000 HKD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Jan 2025.
- Competition Tribunal: Competition Commission v. Hong Kong Commercial Cleaning Services Ltd and Others, CTEA 2/2021, [2025] HKCT 1, Reasons for Judgment 14.02.2025 Court decision
- Competition Commission: Competition Commission welcomes Tribunal's orders in cleansing service cartel case (20.01.2025) Press release of an authority
- Competition Commission: Hong Kong Commercial Cleaning Services admits liability and agrees to over HK$10 million penalty (09.12.2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link