AliExpress fined record €550m by EU for failing to stop sale of illegal and fake goods
Chinese retail platform handed penalty over listings for items such as counterfeit products and unsafe toysBusiness live – latest updatesAliExpress, t...
Southern Water fined £7m after illegally dumping sewage off Kent coast
Firm pleaded guilty to 13 offences over discharges at Margate and Broadstairs wastewater pumping stationsSouthern Water has been fined more than £7m a...
Virgin Media fined £28m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts
Ofcom levies largest-ever consumer protection fine after finding firm deliberately mishandled millions of phone callsVirgin Media has been fined £28m ...
Amazon fined $2.25 million for failing to help identity theft victims
The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million to settle claims that the company failed to help customers who fell victim to identity theft, ...
Audit firm to Gupta metals empire fined and banned for ‘egregious’ failures
UK watchdog gives King & King severe reprimand for failing ‘to identify clear self-interest’ when conducting auditsBusiness live – latest updatesThe U...
StubHub UK fined almost £900,000 over ‘hidden’ ticket fees
Reseller is also ordered to refund more than 50,000 fans, as its rival Viagogo remains under investigationBusiness live – latest updatesThe online tic...
Missing boy Gus Lamont’s grandmother fined for firearms offence unrelated to his disappearance
Josie Murray fined $10,500 and disqualified from gun ownership for five years after pleading guilty to possessing a gun silencerGet our breaking news ...
‘Amazon.com of South Korea’ Is Fined a Record $409 Million
South Korea’s regulatory investigation of Coupang, an e-commerce giant incorporated in the United States, has led to diplomatic tension between Seou...
South West Water fined £1.85m over parasite outbreak in Devon
Utility company pleaded guilty to criminal offence of supplying water unfit for humans‘My son is still suffering’: the ill effects of water contaminat...
UK Athletics fined £350,000 over death of Paralympian
A judge at the Old Bailey has fined UK Athletics £350,000 with £44,000 in costs after hearing how a paralympic athlete died when equipment fell on him...
Temu fined more than $230 million by EU over illegal product sales
Temu has been fined €200 million (about $232 million) by the European Commission after it found that consumers are "very likely to encounter illegal i...
US firm fined for Australian immigration security failures. How much? Border force refuses to say
Gavan Reynolds cites ‘commercial-in-confidence nature of the contract’ in declining to answer Greens senator’s question in parliamentFollow our Austra...
Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones
An exceptionally weird controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and a pair of marketing firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users...
US-based internet suicide forum implicated in 160 UK deaths fined £950,000
Ofcom attempts to block UK access to site cited in multiple coroners’ reports as it levies fine under Online Safety ActA nihilistic internet suicide f...
