The federal government has joined a whistleblower suit alleging that Toyo Ink Manufacturing Co. and its subsidiaries violated the False Claims Act by failing to pay import duties on certain ink pigments.  According to the complaint, the company claimed that the pigment was imported from Mexico and Japan, allowing it to escape anti-dumping and countervailing duties it would have had to pay if it disclosed that the pigments had actually been manufactured in India and China.

Read the entire press release, “U.S. Intervenes in False Claims Lawsuit Alleging Knowing Failure to Pay Import Duties by Japanese and U.S. Companies”