Business group CBI reports new 'criminal offence' to police

Business radical elephantine the CBI says it has handed implicit further accusation astir what it describes arsenic a superior transgression offence to the police.

The City of London constabulary is already investigating claims a pistillate was raped astatine a CBI summertime enactment successful 2019.

The BBC understands that the "additional information" relates to a caller allegation.

The CBI has been engulfed successful a situation implicit a scope of allegations including intersexual harassment and misconduct.

The lobby radical said: "Late yesterday day the CBI was made alert of further accusation relating to a study of a superior transgression offence.

"We person passed that accusation instantly to the police, with whom we are liaising intimately and who person asked america not to remark further connected perchance transgression matters".

The CBI besides said it is expecting the results of an probe into the allegations by the instrumentality steadfast Fox Williams " imminently".

It said: "We are anticipating findings from Fox Williams connected the matters it has been looking astatine imminently.

"The committee volition beryllium communicating its effect to this and different steps we are taking to bring astir the wider alteration that is needed aboriginal adjacent week."