La punibilidad de la colusión (secreta) de precios en el derecho chileno

the paper addresses the question whether (secret) price collusion between providers of goods and services is a crime under arts. 285 and 286 of chilean penal code. the following reasons lead to the conclusion that these provisions are indeed applicable to many current cases of collusion: on the one side, both the statutory notion of "fraudulent means" and its interpretation by chilean legal doctrine is broad enough to cover those cases and, on the other side, the "displacement" of the general provisions of chilean criminal code by the special provisions of law nr 13.305 of 1959 and dl nr 211 of 1973 was in any case just transitory.