AU Optronics, Two Executives Convicted of Panel Price Fixing
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AU Optronics Corp., Taiwan’s second-largest maker of display panels for computers and televisions, its vice chairman and a senior vice president were convicted of colluding with rivals to fix prices.
A federal jury in San Francisco found two other company officials not guilty yesterday and couldn’t reach a unanimous decision on a fifth executive charged in a U.S. investigation of price-fixing among makers of electronic components used in televisions, laptop computers and mobile phones. The company faces a fine of as much as $1 billion, the Justice Department said yesterday.