{"id":92209,"date":"2026-07-22T20:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92209"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:09:36","slug":"southern-water-ex-chief-exec-faces-up-to-10-years-in-jayil-as-he-is-charged-with-fraud-conspiracyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/22\/southern-water-ex-chief-exec-faces-up-to-10-years-in-jayil-as-he-is-charged-with-fraud-conspiracyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Water ex-chief exec faces up to 10 years in jayil as he is charged with fraud conspiracyc"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA28sbDm.img?w=634&h=866&m=6&x=289&y=122&s=114&d=114\" alt=\"Matthew Wright has been charged alongside three other former employees at the firm, the Environment Agency said\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The former chief executive of Southern Water faces up to ten years in prison after being charged with conspiracy to defraud over an alleged plot to manipulate water quality tests to avoid millions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/southern-water-ex-chief-exec-faces-up-to-10-years-in-jail-as-he-is-charged-with-fraud-conspiracy\/ar-AA28rP3u?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a6107db41214d628ca001003ab8b7c5&cvpid=bb4ba44ecd7741af853a6c8704350e6e&ei=15\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The former chief executive of Southern Water faces up to ten years in prison after being charged with conspiracy to defraud over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Southern-water.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92210,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92209\/revisions\/92210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}