Gains Theory That dealer had a helper
The police investigating the dealing scandal at Société Générale were affecting on Sunday toward a conjecture that its rogue dealer, whom the bank faults for losing it almost $7.2 billion, might not have acted by yourself, as he and the bank have declared. The police have been strain through nearly 2,000 sheets of instant message traffic that the dealer, Jérôme Kerviel, had sent.
The police consider that he may have been annoying to protect a friend who emerge to have helped him cover his pathway — until one final, forged e-mail significance made to look as if it had come from Deutsche Bank brought the case to glow last month.
The instant message swap adds to doubts on Société Générale’s clarification that Mr. Kerviel had engaged in the secretive trades alone, although attorneys say it does not essentially weaken the bank’s declaration that there was no complete fraud.
Via nytimes.com