Intrigue at INM as Buckley heads for the exit

First there was the boardroom battle. Now the chairman of the media group is stepping down

Leslie Buckley and Denis O’Brien, who has a 29 per cent stake in INM Pic: Newscom

It was hard to imagine the unprecedented boardroom battle at Independent News & Media between Leslie Buckley and Robert Pitt taking any more extraordinary turns. What could top a row between the chief executive and his chairman?

Pitt may have exited INM, but if the company believed that was the end of its problems, then the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) had other ideas. Late last year, the watchdog launched ...