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