Prior to joining us, Mr. Chao served as an experienced audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, an accounting firm.

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Rather than order a rush audit, a manager waited four more months and then told an agent to get the couple to extend the deadline by a year.

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Andy Hunt worked on the Academy audit for PwC as a senior manager.

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Board general manager Richard Penn said he was brought in after the events described in the audit report and after the previous chief executive resigned.

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However, a court case in Paris in October last year revealed him to be Denis Lion, a manager who had been temporarily demoted from his position in the bank's internal audit department in May 1999.

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