DOJ fines company for colluding on disk drive parts

Charles McConnell

30 July 2019

Credit: iStock/fokusgood

NHK Spring has agreed to plead guilty to fixing the price for suspension assemblies used in hard disk drives and to pay a $28.5 million criminal fine.

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Charles McConnell

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