A BBC producer who was working on a Panorama programme about troubled overseas property agent Harlequin Property has left the corporation as it emerged that Harlequin is to take an allegation of bribery against him to the police.
Last week the BBC suspended Matthew Chapman, a member of the Panorama production team working on a programme about Harlequin, after the company lodged a complaint that he had offered a security consultant a bribe for information, according to the Guardian. The BBC, which has never confirmed the name of the individual at the centre of the allegations, told the Guardian on Friday that a member of staff has left the corporation. "We have accepted the resignation of a member of staff who had recently been suspended following a complaint made to Panorama," said a spokesman for the BBC. ...
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