THE LATEST NEWS FROM OCTOBER 2002
Sep 05, 2019
3 minutes
As a result, Nintendo was hit with a whopping €149.1 million fine, one of the biggest financial penalties ever dished out by the European Union. All seven distributors were also fined for their part in the cartel, with UK distributor John Menzies receiving the largest punishment, an €8.64 million fine. Greek distributor Itochu Corporation was fined €4.5 million, and the remaining five distributors received fines ranging from €0.82 million to €1.5 million. The offences took place between 1991 and 1998, and concerned both hardware and software.
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