LONDON: Qatari, Chinese and Japanese investors all sought"extras" from Barclays as the British bank raised billions of pounds at the height of the credit crisis in 2008, a landmark London criminal trial heard on Wednesday.
Prosecutors allege the four defendants misled shareholders and other investors by not disclosing that Barclays paid an extra 322 million pounds to Qatar through so-called"advisory service agreements" , described as a"mechanism of paying the Qataris what they wanted". "The Japanese, Chinese, Qataris all wanted extras and the extras were dealt with in different ways without it affecting the level playing field for everyone else," said Boyce, taking the court through Leighton's interviews with the SFO and markets regulator in 2014 and 2013.