In 1995 he married Bliss, and in 1997 he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years jail for syphoning $1.2bn from Bell Resources to shore up the cash reserves of the failed Bond Corporation, a scheme the crown prosecutor in the trial described as "enormous in its magnitude, audacious in its execution and redolent of the most serious dishonesty".
Kohli has often been regarded as one of the BBC's rising stars since winning a place on the corporation's training scheme in Scotland.
Her fellow trustee Jeremy Peat said in September that he felt "frustrated and relatively powerless" over management's plans to change the corporation's pension scheme.
The NUJ also met on Tuesday to discuss "pursuing legal avenues" with the BBC over controversial changes to the corporation's pension scheme.
The BBC pension trustee chairman, Jeremy Peat, has said he felt "frustrated and relatively powerless" over management's plans to change the corporation's pension scheme.
Earlier today Thompson warned staff that BBC management did not have much scope to negotiate in attempting to overhaul the corporation's pension scheme to try to plug a deficit that could be as much as £2bn.
Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, has warned the unions that management did not have much scope to negotiate in attempting to overhaul the corporation's pension scheme to try to plug a deficit that could be as much as £2bn.
Helen Boaden, the director of BBC News and a trustee of the corporation's pension scheme, told a colleague that it would have been "much, much better" if management had waited to find out how much the actual pension deficit is before making changes to staff's pensions, in an internal email seen by MediaGuardian.co.uk.
A number of corporation tax avoidance schemes will also be stopped.
John Mann, a Labour MP and member of the influential Treasury Select Committee, told The Independent yesterday: "Google has a massive turnover, but along with other corporations continues to scheme to avoid paying its fair share of tax.
