In his 20s, yet running a $50billion book, <a href="https://kwekuadoboli.co.uk/">Kweku Adoboli </a>had worked his way up the trading floor at the very point the market crashed.
His actions wiped £2.7bn from the UBS share price, prompted the resignation of their chief executive - and got him a seven-year jail sentence for fraud.
In this remarkable interview with Olly, he reveals a corporate culture of ‘wilful blindness’, explains how he fell foul of the UK’s hostile environment policy for migrants - and re-lives the moment he realised that, having <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financial-crime/9543612/UBS-rogue-trader-trial-Kweku-Adobolis-deeply-sorry-email.html">taken responsibility</a> for his actions, he would forever be known as Britain’s biggest ‘rogue trader’...

This episode first aired in February 2018. Now remastered and with an update from Olly, we've paired this episode with Priscilla Coleman's interview on Drawn To Justice, released this month. <a href="https://www.modernmann.co.uk/new/priscilla">Listen now!</a>
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