<Li> Sharp also has a manufacturing facility in Indonesia; their plant in Karawang is the largest refrigerator producing plant in the world . </Li> <P> On 8 November 2008, the United States Department of Justice announced that Sharp had agreed to pay $120 million (United States Dollar) as a criminal fine . According to the announcement, Sharp participated in conspiracies to fix the price of TFT LCD panel for Dell's computer monitors and laptops (2001--2005), Motorola's Razr phones (2005--2006) and Apple's iPod (2005--2006). </P> <P> On 18 December 2008, Japan Fair Trade Commission ordered Sharp to pay JP ¥ 261 million (US $3 million) as criminal fine . According to the order, Sharp and Hitachi Display participated in the conspiracies to keep the price for TFT LCD panels for Nintendo DS and DS - Lite . Fine for Hitachi Displays was waived by JFTC leniency program . </P> <P> However, Sharp disagreed with the JFTC order and announced to begin appeal procedure against it on 2 February 2009 . On 31 July 2013, JFTC dismissed Sharp's appeal . </P>

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