| The UK's Serious Fraud Office is to investigate the circumstances surrounding the demise of Birmingham-based carmaker MG Rover in 2005. BBC business editor Robert Peston says Business Secretary Lord Mandelson will issue a brief written statement on Monday confirming the move. It follows a four-year inquiry into the collapse, which led to 6,000 job cuts. The four executives in control of MG Rover at the time said there was "no suggestion of improper conduct". A spokesman for the MG Rover directors said: "The directors have at all times willingly accounted for their actions, which kept MG Rover alive for five years." When the MG plant at Longbridge, Birmingham, closed the government announced a £150m support package for those losing their jobs and for the estimated 12,500 people affected in subsidiary firms.
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