Best Buy CEO being probed for inappropriate relationship
Corie Barry, the 44-year-old CEO of US retail giant Best Buy, is under scrutiny from the company's board for maintaining an inappropriate romantic relationship with Karl Sanft, Best Buy's former senior vice president of US retail operations. The board was informed of this in an anonymous letter, which it has declined to reveal fully, and has invited Sanft, now a fitness company executive, to cooperate in the investigation.
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