UBS trader charged with $2 billion fraud

LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS trader Kweku Adoboli wept in a London court on Friday as he was charged with fraud and false accounting dating back to 2008, a day after the Swiss bank was plunged into crisis by revealing a $2 billion (1.27 billion pounds) trading loss.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://mf.feeds.reuters.com/c/871/f/415342/s/187cbb10/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=UBS+trader+charged+with+%242+billion+fraud&link=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2011%2F09%2F17%2Fuk-ubs-idUKTRE78E17920110917%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=UBS+trader+charged+with+%242+billion+fraud&link=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2011%2F09%2F17%2Fuk-ubs-idUKTRE78E17920110917%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div> [More]

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