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By Jo Best, 23 August 2004 13:30

NEWS Email has become the de facto standard for business communication across the world. Two employees at Prudential, however, will be wishing they'd kept their business transactions strictly face to face after their email conversations allegedly showed they'd been dealing drugs at work.

The two workers - believed to be a man and a woman, according to reports - from the Pru's HQ in Stirling have been sacked after specially coded emails were deciphered by the financial services company.

Six others have been subject to disciplinary action after the Prudential's bosses launched an investigation into the matter. The six were accused of being involved in the drug dealing after their names were found on the alleged dealers' email lists.

The Scottish police are now investigating the matter. According to a report in the Daily Record, both deny the charges. The Scots newspaper adds the couple's home is though to have been raided by the police, who found quantities of amphetamines, cannabis and ecstasy.