Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 14, 2020 A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Hitoshi Hashimoto and Hiroyuki Tamura for their role in a global conspiracy to fix prices for suspension assemblies used in hard disk drives, the Department of Justice announced today. Hashimoto and Tamura, both Japanese citizens, are former top sales executives at NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (NHK Spring), which has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to pay a $28.5 million fine. The indictment, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that, from at...
