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​​Comment: Country Care criminal-cartel prosecution could offer a road map for ANZ defense

By James Panichi ( March 11, 2019, 00:44 GMT | Comment) -- A committal hearing in Australia’s Country Care criminal-cartel prosecution has seen defense lawyers focus their attention on how both investigators and federal prosecutors working the case signed up key witnesses for immunity deals. If the defense were to establish that the prosecutors’ decision to embrace the “first-in marker” approach to immunity was under a legal cloud, this could offer a leg up to future defendants in criminal-cartel prosecutions — including ANZ, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, whose case is expected to go to court later this year.Australia’s foray into a brave, new world of criminal-cartel enforcement began here — in a snug Melbourne court with faulty air conditioning. This is where a steady flow of often resentful regional and suburban small-business owners wearing slacks and open-necked shirts reached the witness stand....

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