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Paris based trader who cost the French bank Société Générale nearly $7.1 billion societe general
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008

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  • ROBERT PESTON
  • BBC business editor, on the "exceptional fraud" of a Paris-based trader who cost the French bank Société Générale nearly $7.2 billion
Photo: Jacques Demarthon / AFP / Getty | Source: BBC