Whistleblowing banker who went to prison speaks out
Peter Johnson, who was jailed for “rigging” interest rates, speaks publicly for the first time since being released in 2018. …
One reason he feels so strongly is that Johnson, who worked as a cash trader for Barclays from 1981 to 2011, was the original whistleblower of the interest rate rigging scandal, in which banks paid nearly $9bn in fines and 37 traders and brokers were prosecuted for “manipulating” Libor and Euribor, two benchmarks that track the cost of borrowing cash.
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