Tesco fraud trial aborted after former executive suffers heart attack

OXFORD

  The long running trial of three former Tesco executives accused of cooking the books to exaggerate the supermarket’s profits by £250m has been aborted after one of the men suffered a heart attack last week. Carl Rogberg, 50, Chris Bush, 51, and John Scouler, 49, allegedly acted as the ‘generals’ behind the plot which eventually wiped £2billion off the total share value of Britain’s biggest retailer. The supermarket’s former finance chief, managing director and food commercial director were said…

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