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Rahat Kapur
Oct 24, 2023

WPP fires executive detained in Shanghai over bribery charges

The executive was terminated following a post by Shanghai's economic police, alleging that multiple former employees of an ad agency in China had taken advantage of their positions and facilitated large bribes.

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