The German automobile giant Daimler has become the latest multinational company to bear the brunt a Chinese regulatory investigation, confirming on Tuesday that officials from an agency that enforces antimonopoly and pricing rules had searched its offices in Shanghai.
The visit to the office on Monday came just a day after Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, said it would cut the price of Mercedes-Benz repair parts sold in China by an average of 15 percent “in response to antimonopoly investigations into the automobile industry” by a Chinese agency, the National Development and Reform Commission.
A Daimler spokesman in Germany confirmed that the Shanghai offices had been searched and said that the company was cooperating with officials. He said Daimler would not comment further on the continuing investigation and declined to give his name, citing company rules.
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