China Detains Current, Former GroupM Employees as Part of Commercial Bribery Case

Shanghai police detained one current and two former employees of GroupM, a unit of London-based advertising giant WPP, citing suspicions that they accepted bribes.

Late 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 non-public officials. That statement referred to GroupM, according to a person familiar with the matter.