Lucrative contracts were handed out by NHS managers in return for cash and gifts across the country.

Four men have been jailed in a £6m corruption and bribery probe at health boards across Scotland.

The group was charged following investigations into the awarding of lucrative NHS contracts to an Ayrshire–based telecommunications firm.

Adam Sharoudi, 41, and Gavin Brown, 48, ran Oricom Ltd, a firm that started from a garden shed and went on to secure major deals.

However, prosecutors said the contracts for the supply and maintenance of telecoms and video conferencing equipment broke the rules regarding financial wrongdoing in the tendering process.