Denmark's Christmas tree growers have been charged over claims of price-fixing and running a cartel. Allegations that costs were deliberately hiked up by 25 per cent follow a police investigation.
Qantas and six other airlines have been hit with a $A200 million ($US154.5 million) class action alleging they were part of a secret cartel that used fuel, security and war-risk surcharges to artificially inflate air cargo prices.
The murky governance of football's governing body FIFA and the role of its president Sepp Blatter has again been called into question. Blatter came out this week attacking the European meddlers and has defended FIFA's role as the guardian of world football and has rejected calls to share control of the sport. But pressure is mounting to overhaul FIFA and fix a game plagued by match-fixing, corruption, financial scandals and racism.
