Pressure from Aldi and Lidl led to £250m ‘fraud’ at Tesco

The whistle-blower who exposed the £250m hole in Tesco’s accounts claimed a commercial director pleaded with a former executive that he ‘did not want to go to jail’ over their unethical book-keeping practices. The supermarket’s former finance chief Carl Rogberg, 50, managing director Christopher Bush, 51, and food commercial director John Scouler, 49, are alleged to have ‘cooked the books’ concealing the ever-growing hole in an attempt to save their jobs and seven-figure salaries. All three men are charged with…