Six current and former Qantas Airways employees could face prosecution and extradition to testify in the US after being named in a price-fixing scandal.
The US Department of Justice has released a plea agreement signed by Qantas in November in which it admits a six-year involvement in a freight cartel and gives an undertaking to pay a US$61 million fine.
Under the agreement, Qantas and its employees are exempt from criminal charges except for the two current and four former employees named.
The six are Stephen Cleary, group general manager freight in Sydney; Harold Pang, general manager freight sales in Singapore; Peter Frampton, former group general manager freight; John Cooper, former general manager freight sales; Bruce McCaffrey, former vice-president freight for the Americas; and Desmond Church, a former freight employee.
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