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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East: 1,929 cases from 40 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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by authority- Competition Tribunal (Hongkong), auf Antrag der Competition Commission 1 case 33 % · €2.77m
- Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), Hongkong 1 case 33 % ·
- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) 1 case 33 % ·
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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 | 2 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
3 cases
23 Apr 2026 PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong KongPwC Hong Kong: HKD 1bn compensation for Evergrande shareholders under SFC agreement Other
Under an agreement with the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC, Hong Kong's securities regulator), PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong has undertaken to set aside 1,000,000,000 HKD to compensate independent minority shareholders of China Evergrande Group; in return the regulator will take no further action, without any admission of liability. China Evergrande's audited revenue was allegedly overstated by 44.79% for 2019 and 69.03% for 2020, and PwC Hong Kong, as auditor, was allegedly concerned in the dissemination of false information, allegedly did not maintain its independence and allegedly acquiesced in management's manipulation of audit samples and site inspections.
Auditors who tolerate manipulation of their audit procedures face a considerable risk of having to compensate investors.
Independence and professional scepticism in auditing
- Authority / court
- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Market abuse and insider dealing
- Legal basis
- s. 277 SFO (Cap. 571) (Auffassung der SFC, von PwC HK nicht anerkannt)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 23 Apr 2026
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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23 Apr 2026 Yau Yat Chuen Garden City Club LimitedRansomware via remote maintenance access: enforcement notice against private club Order
In a ransomware attack on the membership management system of Yau Yat Chuen Garden City Club Limited, a private, non-profit recreational club, reported on 31 October 2025, data of 9,045 current and former members and supplementary card holders were affected, including identity card or passport numbers. The attacker exploited a known vulnerability in outdated remote access software of the external service provider and reached the server, which had been left logged in, without further authentication; antivirus software and firewall were outdated, and personal data had been kept longer than necessary. In its investigation report published on 23 April 2026 the PCPD (Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong's data protection authority) found breaches of DPP 4(1) and DPP 2(2) and served an enforcement notice.
Service providers' remote maintenance access belongs in an organisation's own security concept: current software, additional authentication and no servers left permanently logged in.
Service providers' remote access, patch management and retention periods
- Authority / court
- Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), Hongkong
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, Data Protection Principles 4(1) und 2(2); Enforcement Notice
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Other
- Published
- 23 Apr 2026
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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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