14:24 JST, September 30, 2026

It is extremely malicious if residents were forced to bear unreasonably high costs due to bid-rigging on repair work for condominiums. The contractors must promptly refund the amount by which prices were inflated.

The Japan Fair Trade Commission has found two design consulting firms and 40 repair contractors to be in violation of the Antimonopoly Law due to unreasonable restraint of trade, as they repeatedly engaged in bid-rigging for large-scale repair work ordered by condominium management associations in the Kanto region.

The JFTC issued cease and desist orders that require 38 of these companies to implement measures to prevent a recurrence. It also ordered the companies that won the contracts to pay a total of about ¥1.6 billion in penalties.

It is utterly outrageous that........

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