In a hyper-competitive world where everyone strives to be
the biggest, boldest and most famous, no one covets Jerome Kerviel
record-breaking achievement. According
to HuffPo he is the most indebted person in the world.
Thanks to a court ruling in late October, the former junior
trader for France's second largest bank, Societe Generale, owes the company a
cool $6.3 billion -- an amount so gargantuan it couldn't possibly be repaid. But
considering an appeals court upheld the sentence after Kerviel was accused of
orchestrating $73 billion in what the Atlantic politely refers to as
"unauthorized trades," it's difficult to maintain a grounded sense of
proportion.
Jean Veil, one of the lawyers representing Societe Generale,
told the Guardian the bank would take a "realistic" approach to
recovering the $6.3 billion from Kerviel, whose sentence also includes three
years in prison….
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