Former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli was convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail on Tuesday for the biggest fraud in British history, which resulted in a loss of $2.3 billion for the Swiss bank. Ghanaian-born Adoboli, 32, a senior trader on the Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) desk at UBS’s […]
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“Rogue trader” weeps as tells court he acted for good of UBS
Former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli wept on Friday as he told a jury that his “off-book” trading was done for the benefit of the bank that meant everything to him. Addressing the court for the first time in his long-running trial in London, Adoboli said he had no reason to […]
