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(From The Express)

Byline: Mark Watts

THEWessex Water executive at the centre of a GBP1million bribe investigation has said he was as surprised as anyone that YTL Power of Malaysia won the bid battle for his company.

The City of London police last week arrested Colin Skellett, 57, on suspicion of taking a GBP1million bribe from YTL to push the deal the group's way.

But in an exclusive interview with the Financial Sunday Express Skellett, chairman and chief executive of the water group, claimed he had expected the Royal Bank of Scotland to succeed in its bid for Wessex, which was being sold by the collapsed US energy giant Enron.

He said he even had a ...

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