Beijing: Four Chinese dealers for German automaker BMW have been fined about 1.6 million yuan ($260,000), authorities have said, as the government steps up a high-profile anti-monopoly campaign involving a number of foreign brands.
The dealers were each fined between 150,000 yuan and nearly 940,000 yuan. The dealers in Wuhan in the central province of Hubei have been ordered to pay the penalties for “forming a price alliance”, provincial authorities said in a statement Wednesday. They agreed to consistently charge a fee for the pre-delivery inspection of cars, which falls under “the obligations and responsibilities” of the automaker and its dealers, according to the statement.
