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Probe into banks’ early repayment scheme widens

By  |  May 5, 2012

 

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    Hungary’s Competition Office (GVH) has widened its probe into Hungarian banks. The GVH suspects the banks formed a cartel from September 2011 to February 2012 to raise interest rates on forint loans for early repayment schemes. The probe was widened after documents were discovered that supported GVH’s suspicions.

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