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...A Milan court last week acquitted 13 banking executives, as well as Deutsche Bank and Nomura, of colluding to help Monte dei Paschi di Siena hide more than €2bn in losses after its disastrous acquisition...
...Thirteen former bankers from Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Nomura and Deutsche Bank were sentenced to jail on Friday after a case that shook Italy’s establishment and fomented the rise of populism in the country...
...But Nienke Palstra, a campaigner at Global Witness, said: “Thirteen per cent of the register is a very large amount of companies who are not identifying PSCs....
...After The Looming Tower (the story of September 11) and Going Clear (on the scientology racket), he has now produced the wonderfully readable Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp...
...CRIME The Right Hand , by Derek Haas, Mulholland, RRP£13.99 Loner Austin Clay tackles unthinkable assignments for the government....
...“Thirteen years ago you would get 13 years, which would typically mean a seven or eight-year sentence. Now they are talking about 25 years – a long time for a 45-50 year-old man....
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