涉嫌价格垄断西门子遭罚5.22亿美元

　　Siemens， Europe's largest engineering group， is to strengthen its core automation division by paying $3.5bn to buy private equity-owned UGS as it seeks to show it has not been paralysed by bribery allegations.

　　Details of the plan emerged as the German conglomerate suffered a fresh blow yesterday when the European Commission ordered it to pay a record $522m fine for its “leadership role” in a price-fixing cartel.

　　Last night the company was also considering whether to float its VDO car-parts division.

　　欧洲最大的工程集团西门子将通过出资35亿美元收购UGS公司来强化旗下核心的自动化业务，因为它正试图表明自己没有受到贿赂指控的影响。

　　昨日，这项计划的细节公布之时，这家德国企业集团又遭打击，欧盟委员会命令其交纳5.22亿美元的罚款，因为它在一个价格垄断集团中起到了“带头作用”。

　　据知情人士透露，昨晚，西门子还考虑是否要将旗下威迪欧(VDO)汽车部件公司上市。