Competition Council fines funeral industry cartel
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The Competition Council has fined a group of funeral directors more than €47,000 for operating as a cartel. It is a rare instance of the state intervening to ensure that even the final market remains a competitive one.
The Constitutional Court has issued a blunt assessment of Prosecutor General Armīns Meisters, suggesting he is either incompetent or simply choosing to disregard the law. Elsewhere in the legal system, a hunter has been charged for shooting a man he suspected of being a car thief.
A new list of Latvian companies still trading with Russia and Belarus has been published, while the watchdog Delna has been accused of holding a monopoly over investigations into the country's philanthropic organisations.