Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim tells reporters case against three companies is part of larger ongoing investigation involving other co-conspirators
Three South Korean companies will plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $82 million in fines for their role in a long-running conspiracy to fix the price of fuel sold to U. S. military bases in South Korea, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
SK Energy, GS Caltex, and Hanjin Transportation further agreed to pay $154 million to the United States for civil antitrust and false claims related to the bid-rigging conspiracy, the department said.
Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, told reporters the case against the three companies was part of a larger ongoing investigation involving other co-conspirators.
