WPP Fires Executive Detained in China After Police Raid

WPP Plc has fired the executive who was detained in China on bribery charges following a raid on its offices, the company said in a statement Monday.

The London-based advertising and communications firm didn’t provide the name of the employee, who it said was an executive at its media trading subsidiary GroupM. The company added it had opened an internal investigation into the incident and cut ties with an unnamed business party that is also part of the police inquiries.

“We are absolutely committed to behaving in accordance with the law and our own code of conduct, and will ...