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Headed by Chengdu Municipal Chamber of Commerce for Drug and Medicine, these companies participated in and colluded to set drug prices to manipulate the price of the drug market.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Changgui, a team leader from SPPD who is responsible for investigating on the case, says that SPPD and Chengdu Municipal Pricing Department jointly conducted a series of audits from September 28 to mid-October, which finally verified that the companies had engaged in illegal pricing. 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