A billionaire former head of oil at Glencore Plc, Alex Beard, has been charged with corruption by the UKs top fraud agency, alongside four other ex-employees from the commodities trader. Beard, 56, who was one of Glencores top executives for more than a decade before his departure in 2019, is the highest profile individual to be charged in a sweeping series of investigations into corruption and market manipulation at the company and one of the most senior commodity traders ever to be charged with wrongdoing. The UKs Serious Fraud…
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