A former senior Qantas Airways executive has agreed to plead guilty and spend eight months in jail for taking part in an international cargo price-fixing conspiracy that is still being investigated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

The DOJ says in a statement that Bruce McCaffrey, former Qantas VP of freight for the Americas, has agreed to plead guilty, spend eight months in jail and pay a criminal fine of $20,000 “for participating in a conspiracy to fix rates for international air cargo shipments”.

McCaffrey is the first person to be charged in the DOJ’s ongoing investigation of price-fixing in international air cargo shipments. Late last year Qantas agreed to plead guilty and pay a $61 million criminal fine for price-fixing related to its air cargo operations.

British Airways, Japan Airlines and Korean Air have also paid fines and many other

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