Senior executives at BT Group PLC ( LON:BT.A ) were allegedly involved in accounting fraud at the Italian division despite asserting they knew nothing about the misconduct, a criminal probe has revealed. A report by Italy's financial police, seen by Reuters, claims that a series of emails between BT's top executives and managers of the Italian division "point to the existence of insistent requests by the leadership of the parent company aimed at achieving ambitious economic targets, even using aggressive, anomalous and knowingly wrong accounting practices".