Police question trader blamed for SocGen loss
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French police questioned a junior trader on Saturday blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at bank Societe Generale after keeping his superiors in the dark for months about thousands of illicit deals.
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The trader alleged to have cost French Bank Societe Generale 4.9 billion euros in unauthorised financial deals was being questioned in police custody Saturday, a judicial source said.
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French bank Societe Generale said fraud by a single trader had caused it a 4.9 billion euro ($7.1 billion) loss and that it would seek emergency funds as a result, shocking battered markets.
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French bank Societe Generale faced tough questions on Friday over how it failed to spot the biggest rogue dealing fraud in history, in which a single young trader triggered a $7 billion loss under the noses of top executives.
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France's financial market regulator said Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into French bank Societe Generale, which announced last week that the actions of a rogue trader caused it nearly euro5 billion (US$7 billion) in losses.
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The junior trader blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at French bank Societe Generale faced a second day of questioning on Sunday by finance police, who said he was cooperating with their inquiry.
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A junior trader blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at French bank Societe Generale has handed himself into the police and is cooperating with their investigation, a prosecution official said on Saturday.
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The dealer blamed for a seven-billion dollar rogue trader loss at French bank Societe Generale told AFP Tuesday he had got "a bit carried away," but refused to be made a scapegoat for the whole scandal.
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French bank Societe Generale has lost $10bn, the bulk of which was lost through fraud by a trader.
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French trader accused of the biggest fraud in banking history facing another day of police questioning
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A Paris prosecutor on Monday asked for preliminary charges of forgery, breach of trust and fraud to be filed against a trader accused by Societe Generale bank of causing what could be history's largest trading fraud by a single person.
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The junior trader blamed for causing a $7  billion loss at French bank Societe Generale faced a second day  of questioning by finance police on Sunday.
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Societe Generale came under mounting pressure on Friday to give a full account of how a rogue trader managed to dupe his bosses and run up a $7 billion loss -- while his family said he had been made a scapegoat.
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Societe Generale said Thursday that a single trader was responsible for a massive 4.9 billion euro (7.15 billion dollar) fraud at the French banking giant.
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Could Societe Generale's $7.2 billion loss at the hands of a rogue employee have been prevented?
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A second broker suspected of involvement in the Societe Generale affair appeared before French judges Saturday on suspicion of knowing about the multi-billion-euro losses being made by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, a judicial source said.
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Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader alleged to have cost his bank billions of euros, is police custody, reports say.