According to the NY Times' Dealbook: Kweku M. Adoboli, a former UBS trader currently serving a
seven-year jail sentence for a fraud that prompted a multibillion-dollar loss
at the Swiss bank, has requested an appeal.
Mr. Adoboli, who was sentenced in November, filed an
“application against his conviction and sentence,” a clerk at Britain’s Court
of Appeal said. Tim Harris, Mr. Adoboli’s lawyer, was not immediately available
for comment.
Last year, a jury was unanimous in its decision to find him
guilty of one count of fraud. The jury was nine to one on a second fraud charge
and acquitted Mr. Adoboli on two charges of false accounting. Mr. Adoboli’s
jail term is unlikely to be significantly reduced should the second fraud
charge be reversed, his lawyer said last year.
Mr. Adoboli had pleaded not guilty on all charges. He argued that his
actions were aimed at generating profit for UBS and that colleagues were aware….
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