A global recruitment consultancy firm with an office in Aberdeen has gone bust.

It is understood that nine people at the office on Rubislaw Place will be out of work.

Maxwell Drummond International (MDI), an executive recruitment consultancy to the global energy sector, was placed into provisional liquidation last week.

A spokeswoman for insolvency specialist Begbies Traynor said the “business failure” of MDI was “partly as a result of the downturn in the oil industry”.

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