How South Korean oil giants colluded in $17 billion price-fixing scandal — and how they got caught
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generally refers to the spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil
secretive cooperation or deceitful agreement in order to deceive others, which may involve unions, wage fixing, kickbacks, or misrepresenting the independence of the relationship between the colluding
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