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Former Barclays boss, Jes Stayye, discussed secret transactions and clients as a sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including the details of the scammer, Bernard Madov, according to a court of a UK financial surveillance organization. I did.
STALEY sent an e -mail to Epstein by the financial Authorities as evidence that the bankers misunderstood the regulatory authorities when the bankers guarantee that they had no closely related.
When STALEY worked at JPMORGAN CHASE before joining Barclays, he asked for advice on how to get a higher salary package from his boss, Jamie Dimon, and shared the details of the client’s client. FCA said. The written discussion on the boss of the former Barclays.
STALEY began legal issues in FCA’s decision in 2023, prohibited working in the UK financial services, “recklessly misunderstood” and the nature of his relationship “perfectly”. I punished £ 1.8 million by acting “sincerely” in “lack.” Epstein, Wall ST BANK client.
STALEY is scheduled to testify in the March incident, and the London Court heard in a pre -trial screening on Thursday that a three -day mutual survey was conducted by an FCA lawyer.
The regulatory authorities said in the UK’s first revealed STALEY and EPSTEIN’s email trafficking, the “Incurable and misleading” statement when the boss of the former Barclays asked about their relationship. He said he supported the discovery of providing it to regulatory authorities.
“Between 2008 and 2011, STALEY shares the relationship with the previous employer JPMORGAN and infringes on employers’ duties, including a conflict between JPMORGAN and EPSTEIN. STALEY is motivated, “FCA said.
Epstein transferred an email written by former US Finance Larry Summers to Stayrey, “What is the true story of Madov? Shouldn’t JPM know well?” MADOFF was sentenced to 150 years in 2009 after adjusting a $ 65 billion Ponzi scheme. He died in 2021.
FCA said that Staley answered. “I can’t reply by email. He said,” He was ready to discuss the problem with Epstein, “he said.
Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 after being arrested for a minor of sexual personal trafficking, “provided important support to the sister of the series in her education and career, and 2013. He said he had discovered evidence that he had invited him to graduate.
In response to FCA’s written discussion, STALEY has denied that the information he shared with Epstein is “not open information” but is a confidential JPMORGAN confidentiality.
Barclays sent to the FCA and have been approved by stays to regulators that the regulator has stopped contacting the Epstein a long time ago, who joined the bank in 2015.
However, the regulatory authorities were announced in 2015 by the highest executive officer of Barclays, and the claimed sex offenders tried to help him get a job, and the stays were to be appointed. He said he was in contact with Epstein.
In the latest answer submitted to the court, the FCA claimed that the contact between the two men was actually “at least” in February 2017, and that Staley’s daughter Alexa was used as an intermediary. did.
STALEY replied that FCA did not fully consider the “sporadic properties” of e -mails exchanged between her daughter and Epstein.
Former Barclays boss could not recall a conversation with his daughter about emails, up to “time passing and his professional commitment.”
A 68 -year -old lawyer claims that the FCA process is “unfair” and the penalty imposed is “terrible imbalance.”
The FCA said in his statement that he had decided to start an investigation without giving a stayley an opportunity to provide an “obvious contradiction.”
In a written discussion, Staley’s Robert Smith KC stated that FCA claimed that Staley was in contact with Epstein in 2017, “not supported by evidence” in 2017. 。
He added that the FCA has been able to point only to the “only handful of opportunities” in which two people interacted in about 10 years.
STALEY met EPSTEIN around 1999, was responsible for JPMORGAN’s private bank, and Epstein was a client. Epstein was convicted of a minor procurement for prostitution and received 18 months in a prison in Florida in 2008.
Leigh-Annn Mulcahay KC, the representative of FCA, stated in a legal document that the relationship between Staley and EpStein was “inevitably questioned his actions and judgments.” She stated that the sanctions imposed on the series were “appropriate” and “proportional”.
