A cartel member chosen to lose a contract might agree to submit a high bid; another might abstain or withdraw its bid from the tendering process.

The switchgear suppliers informed each other of tender offers by customers, and co-ordinated bids to ensure that business was won in line with a quota for each cartel member.

This has already persuaded more than ten companies to give evidence against fellow cartel members.

Young cartel members brought up on social media may find such shows of bravado irresistible, but it can be their downfall.

The approach has been hugely successful, persuading about 200 cartel members to apply for leniency since the 2002 reforms.

Nowadays, this would be considered a criminal cartel.

The globalisation of criminal cartels threatens the rule of law.

But it speaks to the underlying anxiety of an island being swamped by criminal cartels bringing in boatloads of illegal immigrants.

Even while in jail, he remains the leader of his gang, which was once one of the country's most feared and violent criminal cartels.

In multiplayer mode it pits four players as criminal cartels in a race to gain money and turf.

Any attempt to agree specific limits or boundaries could lead to allegations that the banks were forming a cartel on bankers' pay.

They haven't formed a cartel.

Instead of forming a cartel, businesses could simply merge into one entity.

He formed a cartel to control global business with carbon disulphide.