Former Tesco director Carl Rogberg cleared of fraud over 2014 scandal

LONDON (Reuters) - A former senior director of Tesco (TSCO.L) was formally acquitted on Wednesday of fraud and false accounting at Britain’s biggest retailer in 2014.

Carl Rogberg, a former Tesco UK finance director, was tried last year along with former colleagues Christopher Bush and John Scouler. The trial was abandoned in February after Rogberg suffered a heart attack.

Bush and Scouler faced a re-trial and were acquitted in December, the judge ruling there was no case to answer. Rogberg was severed from the re-trial indictment due to ill-health and was formally acquitted at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday.

Reporting by James Davey, editing by Kate Holton