Failure of Country Care criminal-cartel trial points to future challenges for Australian enforcer

Published: June 4, 2021, 12:54 p.m.

This week\u2019s failure by Australian prosecutors to secure a conviction in the first criminal-cartel trial in over 100 years spells trouble for the country\u2019s competition enforcer, which investigated the case. The Country Care prosecution has been widely regarded as a dry run for next year\u2019s criminal-cartel trial targeting some of the world\u2019s largest and best resourced banks. Also on the podcast this week, the death by a thousand cuts of Indonesia\u2019s highly regarded anti-corruption agency.