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Discredit history: 10 years of Barclays scandals
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Scandals at Barclays have cost the UK bank two chief executives in less than a decade. We take a look at some of the controversies that have plagued the bank since the 2008 financial crisis.
The Serious Fraud Office launches an investigation in 2012, and eventually accuses Barclays bankers of funnelling secret fees to Qatari investors in exchange for emergency funding at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.
It resulted in the only criminal trial brought against UK banking executives during the financial crisis, and involved four senior bankers, including the chief executive, John Varley. Varley was acquitted by an appeals court in June 2019, while the three remaining executives were found not guilty in a criminal trial in February
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