Secretary for Justice Zheng Ruohua's husband, Poon Lok To, founded and chaired the An Lok Engineering Group, which was accused of conspiring with the competitor Shun Hing Group to set prices in the air-conditioning project. Regulations, the document pointed out that the time involved in the case was as long as 4 years, and the total project sales involved about 2 billion yuan. The two groups would "help each other" and disclose the quotation, and the receiving party would provide a cover tender (commonly known as "piggy mark"). , and the staff of the two companies will use "PIG PIG" as the subject line of the email when contacting the information via email, and the case will be handled by the Competition Tribunal.
Pan says his company has no relationship with Shun Hing
Pan Letao responded to the incident after attending the annual general meeting of Anle Engineering today (16th), saying that the employees involved will continue to work, and said that he would not comment on the Commission's statement, and his company has no relationship with Shun Hing, emphasizing that "real gold is not afraid of the fire." .
+3
The applicant is the Competition Commission, and the seven respondents include: Anle Mechanical & Electrical Equipment Engineering Co., Ltd., Anle Engineering Group Co., Ltd., Shun Hing Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Shun Hing Group Co., Ltd., Anle Senior Engineer She Jiawei, Anle Senior Engineer Zheng Jiechun, Shun Hing Senior Manager Guan Zhaojian .
An Lok and Shun Hing are competitors
The complaint alleges that An Lok and Shun Hing are competitors, both of which provide air-conditioning repair, installation, maintenance and replacement services.
When a customer needs the above-mentioned air-conditioning project, they can issue a tender or request for quotation, and companies such as Anle and Shun Hing can submit bids to compete.
However, during the period from January 14, 2015 to December 4, 2019, An Lok and Shun Hing involved mutual cooperation, cover, and sharing of commercially sensitive information about the bidding intention when responding to the relevant tender quotations, and provided the tender draft for the other party to copy or refer to. .
Forwarding emails means piggyback
An Lok and Shun Hing agreed to avoid competition. In terms of air-conditioning maintenance and installation and services in various properties, for example, in January 2016, regarding the construction contract for the King's Road Building 1, An Lok's She Jiawei once sent an email to Shun Hing's Kwan Siu Kin, in which Include a quote from Anle.
When Guan forwards emails to subordinates, it is called "Pig tender".
Shun Hing subsequently made an offer according to She's request in the tender document, which was higher than that of An Lok, and An Lok finally won the bid.
"Pig" email contains quotation information
In addition, in January 2017, regarding the construction contract of a detached house on La Salle Road, Shun Hing sent an email to Zheng Kit-chun of An Lok. The subject of the email was "PIG PIG", which included Shun Hing's quotation for the project.
An Lok also bid according to the quotation requested by Shun Hing, which was higher than that of Shun Hing, and finally Shun Hing won the bid.
Other projects involving collusive pricing include: Central Western Club, Tuen Mun Wu Hong Clinic and Tin Shui Wai Health Centre projects.
Commission asks tribunal to impose penalties
The Commission alleged that the Respondents had violated the First Conduct Rule of the Competition Ordinance, and applied to the Tribunal to impose fines on them to prohibit An Lok and Shun Hing from engaging in the same conduct that violated the Code in the future, and submitted relevant investigations to the Commission. cost.
Case number: CTEA2/2022
Zheng Ruohua’s husband Pan Letao’s An Leshe and Shun Hing conspired to fix the price, three people were filed by the Competition Commission [Pan Letao case] Zheng Ruohua’s case of illegal construction of her husband’s disaster took more than a year to be convicted [Pan Letao case] A swimming pool with a water capacity of 14 tons was set up in a detached house Pan violator was convicted and fined 20,000 yuan [Second batch of employment protection] Zheng Ruohua's husband Pan Letao's Anle Engineering received more than 20 million yuan, Pan Letao's daughter dumped her name and internally transferred the Haishi Villa unit to her father
