) “pre-populated” a witness statement with incriminating claims before interviewing the person who ultimately signed off on them, a court heard on Friday.
Investigators wrote a statement which appeared to show a rival banker’s concern about “inappropriate” co-ordination between the companies while they were working on a stock issue, then interviewed the witness and the passages re-appeared the witness’s final signed statement, the court heard. The banks and their former staffers are charged with colluding during a A$2.5 billion 2015 stock issue to withhold unsold shares and keep the stock from falling. Their client, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd , is also defending the case.
Leah Won, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s general manager of financial services competition, was asked about a draft witness statement the regulator wrote for an employee of JPMorgan Chase & Co , which also worked on the share issue but cooperated with prosecutors for immunity.“No, I don’t think that we had,” Won replied.
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