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Regulator begins investigation over Tesco profits

The Financial Conduct Authority has begun a full investigation into Tesco after the supermarket overstated its half-year profits by £250m, the company has announced.

Tesco's new chief financial officer will begin his role three months earlier following the shock profit warning.

Alan Stewart will start immediately rather than at the beginning of December after it revealed an accounting issue had seen the chain overstate its first half-year profit.

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Chuka Umunna: Tesco error 'a national interest issue'

Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna said he was 'deeply troubled' by the Tesco error Credit: PA Wire

Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna said the crisis at Tesco is a "national interest issue" that will affect the whole British business community.

He said it was important to establish whether an accounting error which inflated the supermarket giant's profits by £250m was an isolated incident or part of a pattern.

Tesco has suspended four executives while an investigation takes place into the incident.

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