Former Tesco executives pressured staff 'to cook books'
Three former executives of UK's biggest retailer Tesco were "cooking the books" to support Tesco's share price and secure huge compensation packages, prosecutors told a London court. The executives abused their positions to encourage the manipulation of profit figures, and lied to auditors, the court heard. Tesco announced in 2014 that its profit forecast had been overstated by $335 million.