Tesco boss ‘in dark’ on fraud

Tesco’s then UK managing director did not alert the British retailer’s chief executive to possible problems with its 2014-2015 half-year accounts, despite having opportunities to do so, a London court has heard.

Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis was giving evidence at the trial of three former senior executives of the UK’s biggest retailer who are accused of fraud and false accounting in 2014.

Christopher Bush, who was managing director of Tesco UK; Carl Rogberg, who was UK finance director; and John Scouler, who was UK food commercial director, all deny any wrongdoing and have pleaded not guilty.