Critics Call for EY Getting 3-Year Ban from U.K. Government Work

A prominent anti-corruption campaigner said Monday that Ernst & Young should face exclusion from bidding for U.K. government contracts for three years, as doing so would send “a clear message to EY and the wider audit sector that they must clean up their act.”

Spotlight on Corruption said it had written a letter to the Crown Commercial Service asking it to examine whether EY should be allowed to bid for government work. Its involvement in a series of auditing scandals “may amount to grave professional misconduct that renders EY’s integrity questionable,” the campaign group said, adding that it was worth ...