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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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Tesco 'will co-operate fully' with FCA probe

Supermarket giant Tesco says it will "co-operate fully" with the investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority into how it overstated first half-year profits by £250m.

Tesco is under investigation over how it overstated profits. Credit: Chris Radburn/PA Wire

"Tesco will continue to co-operate fully with the Financial Conduct Authority and other relevant authorities considering this matter," the company said in a statement today.

The company announced on September 22 that it had overstated first-half profit by £250 million - effectively its third profit warning in two months.

It suspended four senior executives and launched its own investigation.

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