Advertising giant WPP to pay Sh2bn fine in US

FILE PHOTO: Branding signage for WPP, the largest global advertising and public relations agency at their offices in London, Britain, July 17, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville


Nation | by Brian Ngugi


 Advertising giant WPP PLC, which operates in Kenya, will pay $19 million (Sh2 billion) to resolve US government allegations that it failed to adequately guard against corruption risks in India, China, Brazil and Peru, securities regulators announced Friday.

WPP’s Kenyan unit operates as WPP Scangroup. The Kenyan unit was not implicated in the SEC probe…

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