Ex-Barclays bankers charged with Libor rigging
Prosecutors have charged three former Barclays bankers in connection with the rigging of global interest rates.
The U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office, which prosecutes complex cases of fraud, said Monday that it’s started criminal proceedings against Peter Charles Johnson, Jonathan James Mathew and Stylianos Contogoulas in connection with manipulating the London interbank offered rate, or Libor.
All three have been charged with conspiring to defraud between June 2005 and August 2007.
The scandal began in the middle of 2012, when Barclays (BCS) admitted to manipulating Libor, which together with related rates is used as a benchmark for trillions of dollars of financial products around the world.
#RBS staff memo on “internal fraud”, sent 14 March 2011, seems to have been widely ignored