“Ex-Deutsche Bank Trader Christian Bittar's Rate-Rigging Conviction Overturned by Court of ” — what this page in the network covers. Christian Bittar, a former star trader at Deutsche Bank, has had his conviction for rigging benchmark interest rates quashed by the Court of Appeal in London. Bittar was sentenced to five years and four months in prison in 2018 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud by manipulating the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) between 2005 and 2009. The Court of Appeal ruled that his guilty plea was based on incorrect legal advice, meaning his conviction is now unsafe.
The decision is a significant development in the long-running global investigation into benchmark manipulation, which has seen banks pay billions in fines and several traders imprisoned. While Bittar's conviction is overturned, he remains a key figure in the scandal that shook trust in financial markets. For the complete material, the listing points back to the source inside the network.