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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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Where?
by authority- Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), Tribunal Administrativo €17.6m 82 % · 2 cases
- Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) €3.99m 18 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Denso Corporation €16.8m 78 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €3.99m 18 % · 1 case
- Renauto Veículos e Peças Ltda., Navesa Veículos Ltda. €801,579 4 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | €3.99m |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2025 | 1 | €801,579 |
| 2026 | 1 | €16.8m |
3 cases
10 Jun 2026 Denso CorporationCADE: 100.79 million BRL against Denso over international wire harness cartel €16.8m
The Tribunal of the Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE, Brazilian competition authority) unanimously fined Denso Corporation 100,787,523.05 BRL for taking part in an international cartel in wire harnesses and electrical and electronic automotive components with effects in Brazil. According to the rapporteur’s vote, Denso took part in price fixing, the allocation of projects, geographic market sharing and the exchange of sensitive information roughly between 2000 and 2008. For other participants the proceedings ended through leniency, settlements or for lack of evidence; CADE dismissed Denso’s motion for clarification (embargos) in August 2026. The amount and the facts have not been confirmed against the primary source.
International cartels are prosecuted in Brazil even long after they ended if they affected prices there.
International cartels in the automotive supply chain
- Authority / court
- Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), Tribunal Administrativo
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Lei nº 12.529/2011 (Lei de Defesa da Concorrência)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Automotive
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 10 Jun 2026
Original amount 100,787,523.05 BRL, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Jun 2026.
- Diário Oficial da União, 17.06.2026 – Ata da 267ª Sessão Ordinária de Julgamento do CADE (10.06.2026), Processo Administrativo nº 08700.009029/2015-66 Official register or notice
- CADE – Cade aplica mais de R$ 100 milhões em multa por cartel internacional no mercado de chicotes elétricos (10.06.2026) Press release of an authority
- Diário Oficial da União, 18.08.2026 – CADE Ata nº 29 (Circuito Deliberativo Virtual): Embargos de Declaração Denso zurückgewiesen Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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9 Apr 2025 Renauto Veículos e Peças Ltda., Navesa Veículos Ltda.CADE: BRL 5.36m on Renault dealers for completed, unnotified acquisition €801,579
The CADE Tribunal convicted two car dealers of gun jumping: in March 2015 Navesa had acquired tangible and intangible assets from Renauto for operating Renault dealerships in Goiânia without obtaining clearance for the notifiable transaction. Although the Tribunal had ordered notification in August 2023, the parties filed the form only in November 2024; a fine totalling 5,360,560.00 BRL, payable within 30 days, was imposed. The amount and the facts have not been confirmed against the primary source.
Notifiable acquisitions may only be completed after clearance; a notification ordered by the authority should be made without delay.
Standstill obligation for notifiable mergers
- Authority / court
- Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), Tribunal Administrativo
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Art. 88 § 3 Lei nº 12.529/2011; Art. 12 II a Resolução CADE nº 24/2019
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Automotive
- Published
- 9 Apr 2025
Original amount 5,360,560 BRL, converted at the ECB reference rate of 9 Apr 2025.
- Diário Oficial da União, 16.04.2025, Seção 1, S. 78: Ata da 245ª Sessão Ordinária de Julgamento (09.04.2025), APAC nº 08700.000974/2020-60 Official register or notice
- CADE, 09.04.2025: Cade condena empresas do setor automotivo por prática de gun jumping Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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9 Feb 2023 a Brazilian carmakerBrazilian carmaker: BRL 22.4m over misused cultural sponsorship funding €3.99m
The Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU, Office of the Comptroller General) set a fine of BRL 22,423,482.15 against a carmaker in an early resolution procedure (julgamento antecipado) under the cultural incentive law (Lei nº 8.313/1991) and the Anti-Corruption Law. The carmaker had sponsored with BRL 1,000,000 a concert project funded through the National Culture Support Programme (Pronac), which was turned, without the consent of the Ministry of Culture, into a corporate party for the company's 60th anniversary that was not open to the public; according to the final report, false information was given in the project accounts. A separate decision issued the same day fined the project's proponent BRL 2,940,317.28.
Sponsorship backed by state tax incentives must serve exactly the approved project purpose; redirecting it to the company's own corporate events can be sanctioned as an offence by the sponsor itself.
Sponsorship and publicly funded cultural projects
- Authority / court
- Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption
- Legal basis
- Lei nº 8.313/1991, Art. 38; Lei nº 12.846/2013, Art. 5 II und Art. 6; Portaria Normativa CGU nº 19/2022
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Automotive
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Mitigating circumstances
- The CGU took into account the company's cooperation and commitments and decided in the early resolution procedure under Portaria Normativa CGU nº 19/2022 (CGU regulatory ordinance).
- Published
- 10 Feb 2023
Original amount 22,423,482.15 BRL, converted at the ECB reference rate of 9 Feb 2023.
- Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU), Veröffentlichung der Behörde (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 7 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 9 Feb 2025 · Direct link