Two former Tesco Plc officials won the dismissal of criminal fraud charges relating to a 2014 accounting scandal that prompted a boardroom house-cleaning and an overhaul of the U.K. grocer’s supplier relations.
A judge dismissed the charges against Chris Bush, Tesco’s former U.K. chief executive officer, and John Scouler, ex-commercial director of the unit, halfway through a retrial in London. The charges were tossed out last week, but couldn’t be reported while prosecutors from the Serious Fraud Office unsuccessfully tried to get an appeals court to overturn the decision.
The case was triggered by a discovery that the retailer ...
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