The Serious Fraud Office has charged three former Tesco executives with fraud in its ongoing investigation into irregular accounting practices at the UK's biggest supermarket chain.
Carl Rogberg, Christopher Bush and John Scouler were each charged with one count of fraud by abuse of position and one count of false accounting. The charges arise from an investigation of Tesco's accounting practices launched after the company overstated its profits by £326 million in 2014.
Rogberg was Tesco's UK Finance Director, Scouler was Commercial Director and Bush was Managing Director. The three men will appear in court on 22 September.
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