The former UBS employee accused of being the instigator of one of the largest rogue-trading scandals in recent history has pleaded not guilty.
In a London court, Kweku Adoboli pleaded not guilty to all four charges of fraud and false accounting.
In September 2011, UBS accused Adoboli, a London-based trader at the Swiss investment bank, of accumulating around $2.3 billion-worth of losses through unauthorized trading, wiping out most of the cost-reduction measures the firm had planned three weeks earlier.
In a statement, UBS announced it would cut 3,500 jobs as part of a cost-cutting programme to save around SFr2 billion ($2.3 billion).
After this announcement, Euromoney exclusively revealed that the alleged UBS rogue trader could use the bank's risk-management record as a defence.
According to a source close to UBS:
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Kweku Adoboli, the ex-UBS employee accused of rogue trading, could claim UBS “lacks a clear risk-management structure” as part of his defence, says a senior legal source close to the Swiss bank.
However, regulators, following an investigation, would first need to confirm this is the case and Adoboli would have to plead not guilty to the charges.
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It will be interesting to see what will transpire in court as more details are released. The source continues:
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"Firstly, relating to the previous UBS fine in 2009 which followed an investigation of the bank’s systems and controls, it took two years for investigations to transpire and resulted in a fine of £8 million from events which took place in 2006 and 2007.
“It takes time to conduct these investigations, so we could see the results of this year’s major investigation in the next calendar year, which always follows extraordinary cases like these. I don’t know what the trader will do, but he has to decide ultimately whether he fights the case or accepts the charges. If he claims he didn’t do what has been alleged against him, it might be relevant to his defence that there was no clear guidance or rules [in the risk-management system and structure].”
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Adoboli was remanded in custody and the judge set a provisional trial date of September 3.
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