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By City A.M. Reporter The exec chairman of carpet giant Victoria acknowledged a “lot of noise” around his company in a trading update this morning, as it attempted to put a fraud warning and cratering revenues behind it. The Koch Brothers-backed firm – which owns a raft of flooring and carpet businesses across the world – was dragged over the coals last year after auditor Grant Thornton was unable to give a clean bill of health to one of its subsidiaries, Hanover Flooring Limited. At the time Victoria said it had the issue under control and that there had been neither any wrong-doing nor loss …

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