According to the report, the Justice Department maintains that Young Hwan Park participated in the conspiracy while he was a vice president of sales at Samsung. Park also has agreed to assist the Justice Department in its more-than-three-year old investigation of DRAM price-fixing conspiracy, the report said.

Park will apparently become the 18th person charged by the Justice Department in connection with the investigation. Most recently, D. James Sogas, former vice president of memory for the Japanese memory vendor Elpida Memory Inc., agreed to plead guilty, serve seven months in prison and pay a $250,000 fine. The Justice Department has levied more than $731 million in fines in connection with the investigation against the individuals and four companies, including Samsung.

Park apparently will be the seventh Samsung employee to be implicated. In September, Thomas Quinn, a longtime executive from Samsung Semicondctor, agreed to plead guilty, serve eight months in jail and pay a pine of $250,000 for his role in the DRAM price-fixing conspiracy. Two other Samsung employees, and one from Hynix Semiconductor Inc., were indicted Oct. 18 for their alleged participation in the price-fixing conspiracy. Three Samsung executives from the parent company in South Korea agreed to plead guilty in March of this year.

By: DocMemory
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