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| | Department of State Washington File: Text: Three Asian Firms Guilty of Forming Price Fixing Cartel |
 | | and Daesang Japan Inc., and one Korean corporation, Cheil Jedang Corporation, agreed to plead guilty and pay criminal fines totaling more than $9 million for participating in a worldwide conspiracy to fix the prices of, and allocate customers for nucleotides, a food flavor enhancer, the Department of Justice announced today. |
 | | In separate one-count criminal cases filed in U.S. District Court in Dallas, the Department of Justice charged Ajinomoto, Daesang, and Cheil with conspiring to fix the prices of, and allocate customers for nucleotides sold in the United States and elsewhere. |
 | | On August 23, 2001, Tamon Tanabe, a Japanese citizen and executive of Ajinomoto, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Dallas for participating in the same worldwide conspiracy. |
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