U.K. fraud prosecutors’ will announce significant developments next year in a probe into fees paid by Barclays Plc (BARC) to Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund for a 2008 fundraising that helped the bank avoid a bailout.
David Green, director of the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, said in an interview today, the agency would progress its year-old investigation in early 2014. He also said there would be new information in a separate probe into rigging of benchmark interest rates in “due course.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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