機械警備談合で課徴金命令　ＡＬＳＯＫ系など４社に―公取委

　群馬県内にある公共施設の機械警備業務で談合を繰り返したとして、公正取引委員会は２５日、独禁法違反（不当な取引制限）で、綜合警備保障（ＡＬＳＯＫ）グループ会社の北関東綜合警備保障（宇都宮市）やＡＬＳＯＫ群馬（前橋市）など４社に計１４８０万円の課徴金納付命令を出した。警備業者が同法違反で処分されたのは初めて。
　他に命令を受けたのはシムックス（群馬県太田市）と国際警備（同県高崎市）。前橋市内の別の２社を合わせた６社に、再発防止を求める排除措置命令も出された。セコム上信越（新潟市）も談合に加わっていたが、自主的に取りやめ、調査開始前に公取委に申告したため、処分を免れた。（2022/02/25-16:47）

Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Friday ordered four security service companies affiliated with Sohgo Security Services Co. , better known as Alsok, to pay fines totaling 14.8 million yen for their repeated bid-rigging for public-sector contracts in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan.
   The four are Alsok Gunma in the Gunma capital of Maebashi, Kitakanto Sohgo Security Services Co. in Utsunomiya, the capital of neighboring Tochigi Prefecture, Shimux Co. in the city of Ota in Gunma and Kokusai Security Service in the Gunma city of Takasaki.
   They violated the antimonopoly law, according to the FTC. It is the first time for security service companies to have been punished for breaching the law.
   The FTC also issued a cease-and-desist order to the four plus two other security services companies in Maebashi.
   Secom Joshinetsu Co., a Secom Co. -affiliated security service firm in Niigata Prefecture, which also neighbors Gunma, was also involved in the bid-rigging. But the company escaped punishment as it voluntarily ended its involvement and reported the misconduct to the FTC before the start of the investigation by the antitrust watchdog.