EC relaxed subsidy rules for embattled Opel during financial crisis in 2009
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The probe relates to transfer pricing, in which multinationals shift global profits to subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions. The practice in itself is not illegal, but the EC suspects Luxembourg gave Fiat special treatment in calculating its 2012 taxes.