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Former Posterscope US top managers plead guilty to $19.7m fraud as out of home giant returns to China

Former Posterscope US top managers plead guilty to $19.7m fraud as out of home giant returns to China

By Stephen Foster on June 13, 2012

It’s one of life’s ironies that former Posterscope US president Todd Hansen has pleaded guilty to a $19.7m fraud involving bumping up profits so he could secure big bonuses at the same time as the Aegis-owned out of home company has announced it is to return to China where it had been operating officially through [...]

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So is global media buying really a gigantic fiddle?

So is global media buying really a gigantic fiddle?

By Stephen Foster on July 4, 2011

The UK’s Mail on Sunday thinks so, highlighting the case of Aegis Germany boss Aleksander Ruzicka who was jailed last year for trousering substantial backhanders (or ‘discounts’) from media owners. This sudden interest has been prompted by the likely sale by media buyer Aegis of market researcher Synovate to either French company Ipsos or, maybe, [...]

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