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France bank fraud

The man accused of defrauding French bank Societe Generale is now in police custody. CNN's Jim Bittermann reports

Kerviel's lawyer said a couple of days ago that in fact he was not on the run and he was in France, and he would cooperate with police and in fact that's what's happened just in the last few hours here.

He was brought in to the headquarters of the French Financial police, the Financial Brigade, they are the ones who have looked into business matters and he has been undergoing questioning there since although no one really saw him go. he came in a completely anonymous car with the windows blacked-out so it was impossible to see him in the back of the car. But in fact the authorities did confirm that he's in the headquarters of the Financial Brigade and is being questioned right now. Now that questioning could go on for up to 48 hours without any kind of charges being filed and it'll probably take all of that given the complexities of this case.
The Financial police raided Kerviel's apartment the other night and took off computer material, but in an indication that they may be just as interested in what he did as what the bank did. They also have, pulled off a raid on the Societe Generale headquarter's building and have carried off computer tapes and computer data from that raid, so they are looking into this whole thing.

The Finance minister, the French Finance Minister basically is directing this investigation, because she is under orders from the Prime Minister to come up with the facts in this case as quickly as possible. Here is what she had to say.

I've been tasked by my Prime Minister to give him a report within 8 days and I want to focus on 3 things. One is what really happened and I want that chronology of events and recital of facts to be based on actual hard data. I am not going to satisfy myself with allegations, rumors, conspiracy and what have you. I want hard facts.

Second is understand why controls did not work and three, make some recommendations preliminary, I suppose because you know 8 days is a short period of time. About recommendations as to how controls should be improved and what additional controls should be put in place if necessary.
Many financial analysts have suggested that others could have been involved in the losses and up till now, we've only heard the bank's side of the story.

Jim Bittermann,CNN Paris.

文本简介
法国兴业银行交易员凯维埃尔被指控诈骗罪，而对其进行的48小时审问使本案显得扑朔迷离。

金融警察对凯维埃尔的电脑资料进行检查，却发现他可能只是对市场操作感兴趣而犯罪的。

法国财政部长被要求尽快调查出此案的真相，这位部长最想知道的三个方面的问题是：1.到底发生了什么，她希望得到确切有力的数据和事实；2.为什么监控系统没有发挥作用；3.她希望得到一些初步的建议；

许多金融分析家认为应该有其他人参与了此次金融犯罪活动，但是至今我们只听到了来自银行单方面的说法。