Former GVC Holdings Chief Executive Kenny Alexander has been charged with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to bribe between 2011 and 2018.
He is among 11 individuals to have been charged, according to an announcement from the UK Crown Prosecution Service today [August 28].
GVC, now known as Entain, was subject to an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs in the UK relating to the provision of gambling services in Turkey between 2011 and 2018.
Former GVC Chairman Lee Feldman was also named as having been been charged with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to bribe between 2011 and 2018.
Elsewhere Richard Cooper, Robert Dowling, Raymond Smart, Richard Raubitschek-Smith and James Humberstone were all charged with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to bribe between 2011 and 2018.
