Polly Peck International (PPI) was a small and barely profitable United Kingdom textile company which expanded rapidly in the 1980s and became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before it collapsed in 1990 with the then colossal debts of £1.3bn. The Polly Peck scandal, and Chief Executive Asil Nadir's escape, along with a number of corporate scandals, spurred on reform of UK company law, leading to the early versions of the UK Corporate Governance Code.

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  • Polly Peck International (PPI) was a small and barely profitable United Kingdom textile company which expanded rapidly in the 1980s and became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before it collapsed in 1990 with the then colossal debts of £1.3bn. The Polly Peck scandal, and Chief Executive Asil Nadir's escape, along with a number of corporate scandals, spurred on reform of UK company law, leading to the early versions of the UK Corporate Governance Code. On 26 August 2010 Nadir returned to the UK to be charged on certain terms.
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  • 1990-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
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  • Bankrupt & broken up
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  • 1940-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
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  • Polly Peck
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  • 20061212102740
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  • Bankrupt 1990
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  • Bankrupt & broken up
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  • 1940 (xsd:integer)
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  • Asil Nadir,
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  • Circa 17,000
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  • Suit against Nadir
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  • Polly Peck International (PPI) was a small and barely profitable United Kingdom textile company which expanded rapidly in the 1980s and became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before it collapsed in 1990 with the then colossal debts of £1.3bn. The Polly Peck scandal, and Chief Executive Asil Nadir's escape, along with a number of corporate scandals, spurred on reform of UK company law, leading to the early versions of the UK Corporate Governance Code.
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  • Polly Peck
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