Top Trending: Former Ladbrokes Owner Top Exec Charged With Bribery, Fraud

Kenny Alexander, former head of the parent company of Ladbrokes, is among 11 people who have been charged as part of an investigation into the provision of gambling services in Turkey.  Scroll Down for All the Latest Gambling News Headlines

It has also charged six other people who did not work for Entain.

The CPS said it had charged Kenny Alexander, the former chief executive of Entain, Lee Feldman, its former chair, Richard Cooper, its former finance director, and Robert Hoskin, its former legal director, as well as James Humberstone, who held several roles with the company.

Alleged offences are related to bribery, conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent trading, cheating the public revenue, evasion of income tax, acting as a director of a company when undischarged bankrupt and perverting the course of justice.

Richard Las, the director of HMRC’s fraud investigation service, said: “This has been a complex and international investigation. These are serious charges that relate to conspiracy to defraud, bribery, cheating the public revenue, evasion of income tax and perverting the course of justice among others.”

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Gambling 

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Entertainment

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