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Kweku Adoboli

Kweku Adoboli

1980

Nationality
Ghana
Occupation
economist

Kweku Adoboli (born 21 May 1980) is a Ghanaian investment manager and former stock trader.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. HMP Ford
    Dates unknown
  2. HM Prison The Verne
    Dates unknown
  3. HM Prison Maidstone
    Dates unknown

Biography

Kweku Adoboli (born 21 May 1980) is a Ghanaian investment manager and former stock trader. He was convicted of illegally trading away US$2 billion (£1.3 billion) as a trader for Swiss investment bank UBS. While at the bank he primarily worked on UBS' Global Synthetic Equities Trading team in London, where he engaged in what would later be known as the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal. After serving a prison sentence, he lost several appeals against the UK Home Office decision to deport him to Ghana.

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