M&S: 私的な 注目する，もくろむs 'dig the dirt'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 00:00 BST, 30 June 2004

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BARELY 24 hours after thunderously 否定するing that he had 雇うd any 私的な 捜査官／調査官s to dig up dirt on 示すs & Spencer, Philip Green last night 認める that one of his City 助言者s may have done so.

'I cannot vouch for the 投資 banks,' he said. 'I don't run their 商売／仕事. I don't tell them what to do. They can do what they like.'

告発する／非難するing fingers were すぐに pointed at Goldman Sachs. The 投資 bank, already under attack by 示すs for 申し立てられた／疑わしい dirty tricks, 辞退するd to comment. All Green's other 助言者s 否定するd 雇うing 捜査官／調査官s.

Goldmans has played 堅い before. It once dug up embarrassing dirt on Lord Hanson's lavish personal and 法人組織の／企業の style to fight off his 引き継ぎ／買収 企て，努力，提案 for ICI.

The 示すs saga has gripped the City like nothing for years. The 関与 of gumshoes was all it needed. 示すs, with an 注目する，もくろむ to the headlines, says it is 強化するing 安全 around the board and 恐れるs its phones are 存在 tapped.

But the company is not above playing mean itself. It only discovered that sleuths might be on its tail when it tried to 雇う the two 最高の，を越す 会社／堅いs, Kroll and 支配（する）／統制する 危険s, to chase Green. They both demurred, 特記する／引用するing a 衝突 of 利益／興味.

Someone is digging hard. 示すs has been 激しく揺するd by news of embarrassing (yet 合法的な) M&S 株 取引 by Rose and by ICAP 大君 Michael Spencer.

It is 特に hard to see how （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） about Spencer could have come to light accidentally. He has no 関係 with 示すs.

Spencer says only 'a microscopic number' of people の近くに to him knew he 貿易（する）d in 示すs 株 in 早期に May, and that he had met Rose the day before.