Any fine will be paid by the customers, not the company.
A company I worked for set up the quality manager for what could have been criminal charges. Then, when they were discovered they sacrificed him. He didn’t go to jail, but he could have. Yes, he did what the accused him of, but his boss led him to believe if he didn’t he’d be fired.
That was the most tense place I ever worked. I was slippery enough to stay one step ahead of them. But I lived in fear that they’d one day tell me to do something similar and I’d have to walk out the door. Finally, the killed the company by taking an insane risk and 80% of the employees (all innocent) were laid off. The top guys all got golden parachutes. On the good side, the experience provided me with enough real life examples to get my MBA.
He had a choice and made the wrong one.