SocGen warned on rogue trader last year: prosecutor
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Exchange officials warned Societe Generale about Jerome Kerviel's deals late last year, a Paris prosecutor said on Monday, piling pressure on the French bank to explain how the junior trader almost brought it down.
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The trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale is not on the run and will be questioned by police at an appropriate moment, the Paris prosecutors' office said on Saturday.
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French banking giant Societe Generale said Thursday a single trader who fooled his bosses carried out a massive 4.9 billion euro (7.15 billion dollar) fraud -- one of the biggest in financial history.
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The man at the center of a trading scandal at Societe Generale said that his activities could not have gone undetected by the French bank.
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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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A look at how Societe General's trading scandal unfolded:
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A senior prosecutor recommended that Daniel Bouton be questioned by judges in connection with accusations he has made about a rogue traderâs role in SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©raleâs loss of billions of euros.
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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 supervisors and run up a $7 billion loss.
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JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel told French prosecutors that his fictitious trading started as far back as 2005 â a year earlier than SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale has acknowledged.
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The French bank SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said that it had uncovered âan exceptional fraudâ by a trader that would cost it about $7.1 billion.
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French police had a second trader in custody Friday in their probe of trades that led to massive losses at bank Societe Generale, the newspaper Le Monde reported.
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Lawyers for Jerome Kerviel, the rogue  trader blamed by French bank Societe Generale for huge losses,  lodged an appeal against his detention, the Paris prosecutor's  office said on Wednesday.
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Investigators were expected to question the trader in connection with a massive fraud at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale.
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Police have taken into custody the trader blamed for a $7 billion fraud at French bank Societe Generale, a judicial source said on Saturday.
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A rogue trader who cost France's Societe Generale bank more than $7 billion by making bad stock market bets was taken into custody on Saturday for questioning, judicial officials said.
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France warned foreign banks on Tuesday not to try to grab control of Societe Generale as it reels from losses blamed on a rogue trader, but shares in the bank spiked higher on takeover speculation.
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Could Societe Generale's $7.2 billion loss at the hands of a rogue employee have been prevented?