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The value of this important price component rose from about 20 euros per cubic metre in 2019 to about 60 euros in 2023, it said.<br \/>The body added that what it described as a &#8220;complex investigation&#8221; was launched after receiving a tip-off from a whistleblower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s antitrust regulator has fined energy group Eni and five other oil companies operating in the country for practices restricting fair competition in the sale of fuel for trucks, the watchdog said on Friday.The regulator said that fines totalling more than 936 million euros ($1.09 billion) had been levied against Eni and ExxonMobil-owned Esso, plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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