巴克莱审判:危机时代的卡塔尔资助交易获得数百万美元奖金

巴克莱审判:危机时代的卡塔尔资助交易获得数百万美元奖金

英国的严重欺诈办公室

据称,巴克莱前首席执行官约翰·瓦利(John Varley)和其他高管在金融危机期间误导了投资者筹集资金。

巴克莱高管

伦敦法院周二获悉,由于花了很多时间与卡塔尔投资者进行谈判,导致数以百万计的隐性费用通过金融工具流向了投资者。

需要卡塔尔投资者加入

SFO检察官说,这对于高管们来说非常紧迫,他们担心政府的救助本来是“限制”。

一份协议草案称,一位巴克莱高管罗杰·詹金斯(Roger Jenkins)因获得卡塔尔资金而获得了2500万英镑的奖金。

Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/barclays-trial-millions-in-bonuses-for-qatari-funding-deal-2019-1

Top Barclays executives ‘hid £280m payment’, court hears

Prosecutors

said the executives created a bogus agreement for advisory services so they could pay Qatari investors extra fees for investing.

The defendants deny charges of fraud.

The Serious Fraud Office

told the court that in the 2008 banking crisis Barclays needed to raise billions of pounds from private investors.

But the Qataris drove a hard bargain, demanding commissions from the bank more than twice as high as other investors were getting in exchange for investing £2.05bn at the height of the financial crisis.

BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49995286