The U.S. Department of Justice racked up another guilty plea in its massive auto parts price-fixing investigation, announcing today that a former Japanese auto parts executive is headed to prison for one year and a day for obstruction of justice.

The ex-executive at Denso Corp. deleted numerous e-mails and electronic documents in February and March 2010 after learning that the FBI had executed a search warrant on Denso’s U.S. subsidiary, according to the one-count felony charge filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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