Kweku Adoboli
Kweku Adoboli | |
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Adoboli in September 2011 | |
| Born | 21 May 1980 (age 45) Tema, Greater Accra Region, Ghana |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
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| Known for | 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal |
Kweku Adoboli (born 21 May 1980) is a Ghanaian investment manager and former stock trader. He was convicted of illegally trading away US$2 billion (£1.3 billion GBP) as a trader for Swiss investment bank UBS. While at the bank he primarily worked on UBS' Global Synthetic Equities Trading team in London, where he engaged in what would later be known as the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal. After serving a prison sentence, he lost several appeals against the UK Home Office decision to deport him to Ghana.