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Authorities in Denmark have fined a number of nightclubs for operating a cartel.
The Danish Competition and Consumer Authority said Friday that members of the group had agreed not to open nightclubs in the same towns and cities as each other, or to open establishments within a 20-kilometer radius. Some of these arrangements date back more than 15 years, the authority said in a statement.
A group of 18 discos — with names such as Buddy Holly, Crazy Daisy and Skum — were hit with fines ranging from 28,000 to 278,000 kroner (€3,700 to €37,000).
The authority said the fines were smaller than they would have been in pre-coronavirus times. Fines are capped at 10 percent of a company’s turnover in the previous financial year and nightclubs were closed for a large part of 2020 because of COVID-19.
Source: Politico
