Co-op probe after drugs allegations

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Branches Of Co-operative Bank To Be Cut By 15 Percent
Branches Of Co-operative Bank To Be Cut By 15 Percent

The Co-operative Group has launched a fact-finding probe and a root-and-branch review of its structure after "serious and wide-ranging" allegations about the behaviour of its former banking chairman.

Paul Flowers, a Methodist minister who led the Co-operative bank for three years, is facing a police inquiry after he was reportedly caught buying and using illegal drugs including crystal meth, crack cocaine and ketamine.
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