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The Competition and Market Authority<\/a> (CMA) has disqualified two former directors of CPM Group following the company\u2019s admission to breaching competition law<\/h2>\n

The move follows the CMA\u2019s statement of objections<\/a> issued on 13 December 2018, alleging that three suppliers of pre-cast concrete drainage products \u2013 CPM Group Ltd (CPM), Stanton Bonna Ltd, and FP McCann Ltd \u2013 breached competition law by taking part in a secret cartel for almost seven years from 2006.<\/p>\n

The CMA has provisionally found that the cartel aimed to fix or coordinate prices and share out the market for certain pre-cast concrete drainage products<\/a> in Great Britain.<\/p>\n

As part of a settlement process, CPM and Stanton Bonna Ltd admitted to participating in the alleged cartel and have agreed to pay fines, which will be determined at the end of the CMA\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n

However, the CMA\u2019s investigation into FP McCann Ltd has not yet entered into settlement and the CMA says \u201cno assumption should be made that it has infringed the law\u201d.<\/p>\n

Philip Michael Stacey and Robert James Taylor Smillie were directors at CPM throughout the period of the alleged cartel activity, during which time the company was one of the leading players in the market.\u00a0The CMA has secured legally binding undertakings from these former directors, which disqualify them as directors and prevent them from being involved in the management of any company based in England, Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n

Stacey has been disqualified for 7 years and 6 months, and Smillie has been disqualified for 6 years and 6 months.<\/p>\n

Investigations are ongoing with respect to other directors and FP McCann Ltd.<\/p>\n

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