Pavex Ltd. will pay $150,000 for entering into illegal agreements with competitors through a former employee. The agreements allocated territories for paving contracts awarded by the ministère des Transports du Québec.
This payment is part of a settlement reached between the Public Prosecution Service of Canada and Pavex, and filed today in the Superior Court of Quebec. As part of the settlement, the company has also implemented a corporate compliance program designed to prevent its employees from engaging in other anti-competitive activities.
The settlement stems from an investigation by the Competition Bureau into a scheme that targeted public contracts in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec region between 2008 and 2010. It brings an end to the Bureau's investigation into the role of this company in this matter.
This is the second agreement reached with a company specializing in road works in relation to this scheme.
