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'Banks: Fraud Officials to Quiz Barclays Chiefs'
The (UK) Serious Fraud Office is to question some former Barclays executives under caution as part of an investigation into the bank's fundraising from Qatar in 2008.
Bob Diamond, who quit as chief executive in 2012 over the Libor rates scandal, is on a list of a dozen individuals being questioned.
The executives are being questioned as part of an SFO investigation into allegedly corrupt arrangements with Qatar as the bank attempted to raise emergency funds in 2008.
Barclays alledgedly paid Qatar 322 million pounds in hidden fees to secure the Gulf State's support at the height of the financial crisis and to keep the bank out of UK taxpayer's hands. Qatar invested 4.6 billion pounds in the bank in two emergency fundraisings, in June and October 2008."
fingers crossed Andy [Board Member & MD of Barclays Commercial Bank, June 2006 - Sep 2009; Member of Executive Board, MD of Global sales].