{"id":14362,"date":"2019-04-08T06:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=14362"},"modified":"2019-04-08T06:56:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:56:36","slug":"jury-dismissed-in-barclays-fraud-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/04\/08\/jury-dismissed-in-barclays-fraud-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury dismissed in Barclays fraud trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The jury in the fraud trial against four former Barclays bankers &#8211; including the former chief executive, John Varley &#8211; has been dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The case dated back to the financial crisis, when the bank raised billions of pounds from Middle Eastern investors.<\/p>\n<p>The others charged were investment banker Roger Jenkins, head of wealth management Thomas Kalaris and Richard Boath, former head of Barclays&#8217; European Financial Institutions Group.<\/p>\n<p>The four denied the charges.<\/p>\n<p>All four were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation in relation to Barclays&#8217; June 2008 capital-raising.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Varley and Mr Jenkins were charged with a second count of conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation in relation to Barclays&#8217; October 2008 capital-raising.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-47850774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The jury in the fraud trial against four former Barclays bankers &#8211; including the former chief executive, John Varley &#8211; has been dismissed. The case dated back to the financial crisis, when the bank raised <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/04\/08\/jury-dismissed-in-barclays-fraud-trial\/\" title=\"Jury dismissed in Barclays fraud trial\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,4],"tags":[5695,214,305,4866],"class_list":{"0":"post-14362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-uk","10":"tag-banking","11":"tag-barclays","12":"tag-fraud","13":"tag-serious-fraud-office","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14363,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362\/revisions\/14363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}