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Watchdog intensifies probe on Toyota over 'fixing of car prices'

Motor vehicles await to be driven to bonded warehouses after being offloaded from MV Grand Venus, January 4, 2019. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

A regional competition watchdog has stepped up its probe on a Kenyan-based unit of Japanese multinational Toyota Group for allegedly engaging in anti-competitive conduct causing high vehicle and spare part prices in its African market including locally.

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Competition Commission said raised concerns that Toyota Tsusho Corporation "may be prohibiting out-of-territory passive sales to the detriment of consumers and may also be maintaining high prices of brand-new vehicles and spare parts in the Comesa Region."

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