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Company: Samsung SDI Company Ltd.
Current Parent Company: Samsung SDI
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Penalty: $32,000,000
Year: 2011
Date: March 18, 2011
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: price-fixing or anti-competitive practices
Mega-Scandal: Price Fixing
Violation Description: Samsung SDI Company Ltd. agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $32 million criminal fine for its role in a global conspiracy to fix prices, reduce output and allocate market shares of color display tubes (CDTs), a type of cathode ray tube used in computer monitors and other specialized applications.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Antitrust Division
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
HQ Country of Current Parent: South Korea
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: electrical and electronic equipment
Specific Industry of Current Parent: semiconductors; batteries
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.