Finnish builder Lemminkäinen said in a statement Friday that 21 local councils and the Road Administration had claimed a total of some 65 million euros in damages for a tarmac cartel.

Lemminkäinen said the sum remained preliminary.

Last year, Finland's Supreme Administrative Court fined Lemminkäinen 68 million euros for acting as the lynchpin of a tarmac cartel between 1994 and 2001.

STT