GroupM is an ad-buying unit of WPP.
Photo: Toby Melville/REUTERSWPP said it terminated the executive currently detained in China on charges of bribery and is conducting its own investigation into the matter.
On Saturday, the Shanghai police’s economic crimes investigation division said that three suspects at an unnamed advertising company had been detained on criminal charges of accepting bribes as nonpublic officials.
That statement referred to one current and two former employees of GroupM, an ad-buying unit of WPP, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
Persons:
Toby Melville
Organizations:
WPP, Street
Locations:
China, Shanghai