Honey traps and bribery: Ex-Cambridge Analytica CEO slapped with 7-year directorship ban

The disgraced former Cambridge Analytica CEO has been banned from running limited companies in the UK for seven years for letting staff offer unethical services. The British government’s Insolvency Service said Alexander Nix, had permitted Cambridge Analytica‘s parent firm SCL Elections and its affiliated companies to offer prospective clients a dizzying range of unscrupulous services. They included “bribery or honey trap stings, voter disengagement campaigns, obtaining information to discredit political opponents, and spreading information anonymously in political campaigns.” Mark Bruce, Chief Investigator for the Insolvency Service, said SCL Elections had repeatedly offered shady political services over a number of years: Company directors…

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