KPMG Australia CEO Andrew Yates has stepped down amid a scandal involving audit partners accessing confidential client documents.
KPMG Australia chief executive Andrew Yates has stepped down amid a scandal involving audit partners accessing secret Lendlease files to rig multi-million dollar tenders. An internal whistleblower exposed the alleged misconduct, and the whistleblower’s allegations were suppressed. Andrew Yates acknowledged KPMG failed to properly respond to allegations of client information being misused.
KPMG Australia chief executive Andrew Yates has stepped down amid a scandal involving audit partners accessing secret Lendlease files to rig multi-million dollar tenders. An internal whistleblower exposed the alleged misconduct, and the whistleblower’s allegations were suppressed. According to the Guardian, Andrew Yates took responsibility for KPMG’s failure to properly respond to whistleblower allegations around the misuse of client information.
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