Swiss group Nestlé has agreed to pay a €2 million fine following a settlement over illegal water drilling and unauthorised treatments for its mineral waters, including Vittel and Contrex.
Pardon the pun, but Nestle Waters should be nationalized and liquidated. Governments regularly take control of the assets of criminals. Why not these obvious ones?
The question is why not though? Organised Crime feeds them too - why do they let one free and put the other through the wringer when they're both crooks and both paying the politicians?
Vittel was like 2€ the litre in Germany before they stopped selling it here. So the fine is just the price of like a million bottles. A modern bottling machine can bottle around 80.000 bottles per hour. I couldn't find the capacity of that plant, but using this as an upper limit, the fine corresponds to about a days worth of bottling.