A financial market trader jailed for manipulating benchmark interest rates before his conviction was quashed has revealed why he bonded with Amanda Knox.
Ex-Citigroup and UBS trader Tom Hayes was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud over manipulating the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (Libor) from 2006 to 2010.
Another trader, Carlo Palombo, the former vice president of euro rates at Barclays bank, was also found guilty of conspiring with others to submit false or misleading Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) submissions between 2005 and 2009.
The Court of Appeal dismissed appeals from both men in March 2024 - but they went to the Supreme Court . There, justices found last month there was 'ample evidence' for a jury to convict the two men had it been properly directed, but they had not.
Now, speaking to Andy Coulson's Crisis What Crisis? podcast, Mr Hayes compared his case to that of Ms Knox, who was eventually exonerated in the 2007 murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy after a long battle to clear her name.
