> 3M said Friday it “has no evidence to suggest 3M products have been seized. 3M has no record of any order of respirators from China for the Berlin police. We cannot speculate where this report originated.” [1]
The original German source, Tagesspiegel, has a good record, and Berlin's interior minister would hardly go public with such a drastic statement if he weren't damn sure an order had been diverted.
Out bidding someone in an open market is now "piracy'?
Diverting an already purchased good while it is passing through a third country is not "out-bidding".