Meanwhile, the Bank of England (BoE) has been drawn into the affair after a whistleblower claimed the existence of emails between the central bank and Barclays management.
Kochan is an investigative journalist who has written several books about financial scandals such as the collapse of Bank of Credit and Commerce International, one of the biggest bank frauds in history, and The Guinness Affair, an illegal share-fixing operation.
The first was the government's handling of the bizarre affair of Italy's central-bank governor, Antonio Fazio, who is accused of favouring a takeover bid by Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI) for Antonveneta, a larger Italian bank, over a rival bid from a Dutch bank, ABN Amro.
Like Mr Kerviel, who used his knowledge of the bank's plumbing to create fictitious trades to cover his tracks, Mr Adoboli is alleged by sources close to an internal investigation of the affair to have bet the bank's money on the future price of various stock indices and to have then hidden these moves by creating offsetting fake transactions.
The subsequent Bingham report into the crash criticised the Bank of England's supervisory role in the affair.
The court is also accused of trying to silence bank employees who reported that affair.
Yet The Economist has established that several former senior managers with detailed knowledge of the affair were not interviewed by the bank.
The Bank of Italy, which has said little in public over the affair, said it realised the "true nature" of the contracts late last year after the new management's discovery.
The GOP gubernatorial contest in Nebraska is a bank-breaking affair involving well-known candidates from each major faction of government -- federal (Christensen), state (auditor John Breslow) and local (Lincoln Mayor Mike Johanns).
He lashed out at the bank's donor governments, several of whom think he should resign, for using the affair as an excuse to welsh on their promises to replenish the bank's coffers.
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