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Danish prosecutors reopen criminal probe into energy traders

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Months after the police dropped charges against a group of Danish traders, the AG orders the market manipulation investigation to resume.

Denmark’s highest prosecuting authority (Rigsadvokaten) has reopened a high-profile criminal investigation into alleged market manipulation on the wholesale power market, reversing an earlier decision by police to drop all charges against a group of Danish energy traders.

The reversal by the Attorney General revives Europe’s most prominent criminal enforcement action

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