Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Ex-UBS Trader to Serve 7 Years in Huge Trading Loss




Kweku M. Adoboli, a former UBS trader, was given a seven-year jail sentence after he was found guilty on Tuesday of fraud for actions that prompted a multibillion-dollar trading loss at the Swiss bank, Dealbook reports.

After deliberating for five days, the jury returned a guilty verdict on Tuesday on two charges that Mr. Adoboli had dishonestly abused his position from 2008 to 2011. But Mr. Adoboli was also found not guilty on four counts of false accounting.

It is unclear whether he will appeal the prison sentence….

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