Air freight cartel penalties near $100m in Australia

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By Alex Lennane

17/12/2012

And still the antitrust fines keep rolling in. Thai Airways is the latest to pay out to the Australian authorities – $7.5m in this case – for its “deliberate, systematic conduct involving senior staff’’ at operations in Indonesia. Australia has now trousered some $98.5 m in fines from the airlines.

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