Tesco chiefs ‘cooked books to protect their multi-million pound salaries’

Two former Tesco ‘generals’ cooked the books in a bid to boost the value of their own shares in a move that wiped £2 billion off the company’s value, a court heard. Chris Bush, 52, and John Scouler, 50, encouraged workers to log future profits in a bid to inflate the perceived value of the company, it was said. They did this to boost the value of their own multimillion pound share packages and to secure their jobs in the…