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Qantas to pay $61 million price-fixing fine

01 December 2007

Read more: Qantas price fixing US department of Justice Sherman Act British Airways Korean Airlines

Qantas Airways has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $61 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix rates for international air cargo shipments. 

According to the charges filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Qantas allegedly engaged in a conspiracy to eliminate competition by fixing the rates for shipments of cargo to...


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