Vitamins Antitrust Litigation
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The lawsuit claims that the Defendants unlawfully agreed to fix, raise, maintain, and stabilize the prices of Choline Chloride. The lawsuit claims that as a result, purchasers paid more for Choline Chloride than they otherwise would have paid.
After a trial in 2003, a jury found that DCV, Inc. and DuCoa L.P., as well as Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), knowingly participated in an illegal conspiracy. The jury awarded damages of $49,539,234, which were tripled to $148,647,702. After the trial, Mitsui and its subsidiary Bioproducts Inc. paid money in a settlement. All of the other Defendants—BASF, Akzo Nobel, UCB, and Chinook—also settled with the Class.
The Court subtracted the settlement amounts paid by the other Defendants as well as $236,816.08 paid by DCV and DuCoa and ordered DCV and DuCoa to pay the remaining amount of $70,910,886.92, plus interest from June 20, 2003.
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