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...Barclays’ former chief executive, John Varley, was charged with fraud over his role in the bank’s emergency cash-call during the financial crisis but he was acquitted in 2019....
...Former Barclays chief executive John Varley was previously acquitted as a result of insufficient evidence....
...In 2019, the criminal courts threw out a fraud prosecution brought against Barclays and its ex-chief executive, John Varley, over the bank’s 2008 £4bn fundraising from Qatar....
...During the brief regency of Philippe II, duc d’Orléans (1715-23), a Scotsman named John Law urged the French monarchy to adopt his “System” of public credit and paper money....
...At the time, John Varley was chief executive of Barclays, not chairman....
...Yet fraud charges against the bank stemming from the financial crisis were thrown out because the judge ruled that its then chief executive, John Varley, was accountable to the board....
...But that prosecution would have failed had the court ruled that John Varley, the former Barclays chief executive, was a “controlling mind”....
...John Varley left voluntarily in 2011 but later faced fraud charges over a 2008 capital raising. Several other UK and European banks have had CEO transition issues....
...Varley was not the directing mind of Barclays....
...The fourth, John Varley, left on his own accord in 2011 but later faced fraud charges over a 2008 capital raising. (He was acquitted.)...
...The charges against the bank and its former chief executive John Varley were dismissed by the Criminal Court of Appeal and the three other former Barclays executives were cleared by a jury last year in an...
...He was also critical of John Varley, an ex-chief executive of Barclays, who had sought to downplay his involvement in approving a $3bn loan to Qatar....
...Former Barclays chief executive John Varley has denied to the High Court that he “deceived” the bank’s board over two £322m side deals struck with Qatar during the lender’s £7.3bn cash call in 2008 that...
...John Varley was CEO of Barclays Group Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...John Varley, former chief executive of Barclays, was accused in the High Court on Thursday of giving “not true” evidence to the financial regulator about 2008 capital raisings involving Qatar....
...accounting scandals, including the collapse of outsourcer Carillion in early 2018, has led to a string of investigations into the audit market, including by the competition watchdog, Legal & General chairman John...
...Varley spoke briefly by telephone to Sheikh Mansour as the Abu Dhabi royal was about to board a helicopter in the Kazakh desert....
...John Varley, former chief executive of Barclays, who was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Court of Appeal over the 2008 fundraising, has also given a witness statement for the High Court trial....
...John Varley, the former chief executive of Barclays, first suggested that additional commission could be delivered to Qatar via a side agreement to a crucial 2008 capital raising by the UK bank, a London...
...It had been thought that a chief executive would qualify — but the Court of Appeal ruled that former Barclays chief executive John Varley did not meet the criteria as he could be overruled by the bank’s...
...Three former executives including Mr Jenkins were also cleared by a jury over the fundraising earlier this year, and John Varley, former chief executive was acquitted in 2019. The civil case continues....
...John Varley, the former Barclays chief executive who was acquitted of criminal wrongdoing by the Court of Appeal in 2019, has given a witness statement for the lawsuit....
...John Varley: The chief executive Mr Varley, 63, with his distinctive red braces and tailored suits, was the archetypal City banker as Barclays chief executive between 2004 and 2010....
...John Varley, the chief executive of the lender in 2008, when it turned twice to Qatar and other overseas investors for £11.2bn to avoid a taxpayer bailout, signed the brief agreement after Roger Jenkins,...
...In 2017, indictments were handed up against Barclays, John Varley, who was its chief executive in 2008, and the three men acquitted last week....
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