The Basque government claims 202 million for anti -competitive practices for four health materials

The Basque government will submit a lawsuit to claim 202 million euros to four companies that offer sanitary material for the damage caused to a public treasury by the “cartel” for which they were formed Set prices and set “Anti -Petitive” practicesA strategy for which they had already been convicted by the Supreme Court in 2023.

The decision to tighten this lawsuit was announced by the spokeswoman for the Basque director, María Ubarretxena, who after the weekly meeting of the Board of Directors reported that the companies against which this judicial action will be directed are are are Essity Spain, Hartmann Laboratories, Paul Hartmann Spain and Indas Laboratories.

Ubarretxena explained that these companies “have already been convicted by the Supreme Court for creating a cartel to determine the prices of certain absorbent products they divided.”

In this way he has announced that the Basque government will submit a lawsuit against these companies “for possible prices, commercial circumstances and the provision of production, marketing and distribution of absorbent products for serious incontinence in adults.” and 2014, one Overlap in the acquisitions of these products They were distributed by pharmacies.

In this respect, he indicated that the Ministry of Health sent to companies that same year that were convicted of this “cartel” an extrajudicial requirement in which he asked the government to compensate the government for the damage caused. However, he said that companies “did not answer the extrajudicial agreement or did not reject.”

Ubarretxena, who reported that the Basque government figure in 202 million euros caused the damage to the public treasury caused by these practices, has indicated that “it is now when the legal deadline for the claim of the damage caused begins.”