English to German Law/Patents Law (general) illegale Preisabsprachen

Leo bietet zwei Übersetzungsmöglichkeiten an, „Konspiration“ oder „Verschwörung“, aber irgendwie passt hier keiner der beiden Begriffe so richtig. Auch "Verabredungen zum Betrug" wie schon im Rahmen einer früheren Kudoz-Frage vorgeschlagen überzeugen mich nicht so richtig. Eventuell schon eher "illegale Abmachungen", aber vielleicht hat jemand noch eine bessere Idee... (Es geht um wettbewerbswidriges Verhalten in Form von Preisabsprachen und Markaufteilungen).

Hier zwei Passagen:

On October 1, 2002, G admitted during a telephone conversation with K, which was recorded by K as part of his continuing concerns about possible anticompetitive conduct by AAA, that bid rigging had in fact occurred in the past as a result of a **conspiracy** between B and C, blaming D and E for that practice, but vigorously asserting that F had not continued it. Effective September 16, 2002, G had been named as technical general manager of F, and had in turn retained H as an officer of F. Upon information and belief, under the auspices of G and H, F has continued its **conspiracy** with C to rig bids and allocated the global market in heat exchangers and pressure vessels.

Through its control of the majority of both B’s outstanding shares of stock, and of its board of directors, C utilized B as an unwitting pawn in such **conspiracy** for the purpose of submitting “complementary” bids (i.e., “cover” or “courtesy” bids that were either too high to be accepted, or that contained special terms unacceptable to the buyer), with the clandestine purpose of assuring that A would be the successful bidder.