The complainants argued that the Swedish regulations meant that SBF has a monopoly on conducting rally operations in Sweden, and that they created a cartel with the International Automobile Federation (FIA).
– And this has cost the contestants a hell of a lot of money, said Peter Kurtén, who is chairman of Gothenburg’s motor sports association, to SVT Sport when the case was revealed earlier this spring.
Legislation about to change
But now the Swedish Competition Authority has announced that it will not proceed with the case.
“The Swedish Competition Authority does not consider that there are sufficient indications of a competition problem that harms competition and consumers to prioritize a further investigation on this basis,” they write in their decision, and continues:
“The Swedish Competition Authority also does not consider that there is reason to prioritize a continued investigation based on any of the other bases in the prioritization policy.”
Worth noting is that the legislation that the whistleblowers were largely critical of is about to change. A legislative proposal has been out for consultation during the spring.