Competition Authority Of Kenya Launches Informants Reward Scheme

In an effort to enhance cartel detection in Kenya, the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has launched an Informants Reward Scheme (Scheme), which financially incentivises individuals to blow the whistle on cartel-type activities.

The CAK identifies cartel-type activities as agreements which amount to price fixing, market division, collusive tendering, maintenance of minimum resale prices and controlling production levels. The Scheme also extends to abuses of dominance, implementation of notifiable mergers without CAK approval and other consumer-type offences.

The objective of the Scheme, according to the CAK, is to deepen 'its intelligence gathering capacities with regard to such clandestine operations using informants who are close to the conduct, but not party to it'.