A report accuses SG met Jérôme broker actions … – Terra Chile

The leaders of Societe Generale were aware of the operations of the broker Jerome Kerviel, which the bank attributed in 2008 losses of 4,900 million euros, according to a police report released by “Médiapart”, the contents brought today a new reaction of the bank.

The police in charge of the investigation, Nathalie Le Roy, is based, according to the digital, on the testimony of a former employee, who said that the bank knew Kerviel activity and said they alerted their leaders in April 2007.

In the various interviews and documents examined, as that environment, Le Roy “and then he felt certain that the hierarchy could not ignore” the risks taken by the broker.

The former stockbroker was sentenced to five years in prison, three of cash for breach of trust, forgery and fraudulent introduction of data into the computer system of the trading room of the bank compliance, but was only Internal just over 150 days.

The Court of Appeal of Paris approved in September last year his release, and the Supreme Court annulled the fine of 4,900 million euros that had been imposed in the first instance.

Although Kerviel has not denied in interviews the facts reproached, he has publicly insisted that was the usual way of working among his peers and superiors, and that loss can not be attributed to him solo.

“The case linked to fraudulent operations Kerviel goes back more than seven years and has been the subject of several court decisions that have recognized its exclusive criminal culpability” SG said today in a statement.

The bank, which reacted after the revelation of “Médiapart”, said he was surprised by the statements made by the means by Le Roy, “when he had said the agents who interrogated him in January 2008 that he acted alone. ”

But the testimony of the police following investigations undertaken in 2008 and 2012, according to digital, “can not but force the Justice to reopen” the case of Kerviel, who himself moved out of jail I thought “continue the fight” to demonstrate, according to his version-SG responsibility in the scandal.