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KPMG junior in Carillion forgery case should have questioned orders, tribunal says

KPMG junior should have questioned ‘highly unusual’ instructions in Carillion false documents case, says tribunal

A tribunal found KPMG’s accountants conspired to mislead a 2017 inspection team looking into its audit of Carillion, which collapsed in 2018
A tribunal found KPMG’s accountants conspired to mislead a 2017 inspection team looking into its audit of Carillion, which collapsed in 2018 Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Former KPMG accountant Pratik Paw should have questioned the “highly unusual” instructions he received from his superiors to create meeting minutes that were used to mislead inspectors probing the firm’s 2016 Carillion audit, a tribunal found.

KPMG was fined £14m in May for the wrongdoing of its former staff in the case after a tribunal found that its accountants conspired to mislead a 2017 inspection team looking into audit work it conducted for the troubled engineering company, which collapsed in 2018.

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