Profiteering

A Competition and Markets Authority investigation later found no evidence of profiteering, but the regulator told retailers to make pricing clearer.

But while the trade department can charge those who set prices higher than the SRP with profiteering, it’s hardly enforced.

Campaigners are continuing to raise concerns about energy profiteering in the wake of the latest announcement of record profits and there have been calls for a tax on share buybacks.

Experts are now demanding an end to the 'profiteering' practice, urging sites to stop cashing in on vulnerable Brits longing for a baby.

Here too, Biden’s “war profiteering” denunciations were disappeared, as he recently demanded an additional $45 billion for the never restrained military-industrial complex.

Job security, he said, was threatened by the fourth Industrial Revolution which sought to champion profiteering at the expense of employment creation.

Or energy deregulation, and the resulting profiteering.

Oxfam called for a systemic and wide-ranging increase in taxation of the super-rich to claw back crisis gains driven by public money and profiteering.

Petitioner noted that penalizing profiteering without sufficiently defining what constitutes it violates one’s right to due process and the accused’s right to be informed of the nature and cause of an accusation against him.

The economy is underdeveloped and owned by foreign conglomerates who are busy asset-stripping and profiteering, leaving nothing for the people who live here.

There’s not profiteering going on in any way, shape or form.

Yet some residents argue the district would open the door to water profiteering, claiming the plan would connect local supplies to California water markets, and allow the state to demand transfers during drought emergencies.

Yet the Reserve Bank has been adamant that corporate profiteering was not an inflationary trigger.

All of these players — both Big Pharma and government — showed us that our African lives are worthless to them compared to the profiteering being offered by maintaining health injustice.

But others fear that water markets open the door to profiteering and hoarding, leaving poorer communities in the dust.

Critics say that such abuses are driven in part by a lack of checks, organized crime and ruthless profiteering.

Despite some individuals being impressed by their money-making knack, others branded it as "sad" and implied that it's profiteering on others.

He said on GMB: "It's the concept of charging people for Christmas dinner round your own house - it's profiteering.

The new AGES law rightly classifies smuggling, hoarding, and profiteering of agricultural products as economic sabotage—a serious offense punishable by life imprisonment and hefty fines.

These allegations paint a grim picture of profiteering amid a humanitarian catastrophe.