The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan accepts a guilty plea by a German national for leading a parking heaters price fixing conspiracy (Espar / Hohensee)

Fugitive Executive Pleads Guilty in Parking Heaters Price-Fixing Conspiracy* A German national pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Michigan to leading a price-fixing conspiracy from 2007 to 2012 and was sentenced to time served. Volker Hohensee, a German national and onetime Canadian resident who served as President of Espar Inc., a parking heater manufacturing company located in the United States and Canada, was indicted by a grand jury in December 2015. Hohensee fled Canada and remained a fugitive for five years. In December 2020, Hohensee was