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Comment: Tesco's UK DPA won't be impacted by Hong Kong bribery cases

By Ben Lucas and Martin Coyle
  • 20 Jul 2021 01:38
  • 20 Jul 2021 01:55
News that two former Tesco executives were being prosecuted in Hong Kong over allegations they accepted bribes initially raised eyebrows because some of the alleged offences took place while the company was under a deferred prosecution agreement in the UK.

But upon closer inspection, there are several reasons why the company’s

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Martin Coyle

Senior Correspondent


Martin Coyle is a senior correspondent, based in MLex's London office, reporting daily on bribery and corruption issues in the UK and Europe. Previously he was a senior editor at Thomson Reuters where he covered anti-money laundering, financial crime and regulatory enforcement issues. Prior to that he was editor of The Accountant, the world's oldest accounting publication, and International Accounting Bulletin, a bi-monthly business journal owned by Lafferty.

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