As with Madoff, he walks around as a free man, while enquiries "continue." And also as with Madoff, there are signs of larger links to the money laundering industry, to organised crime ... and from there to the shadowy world of terrorism and the intelligence agencies.
“The best trading day in the history of Société Générale was September 11, 2001,” he said. “At least, that’s what one of my managers told me. It seems that profits were colossal that day. “I had a similar experience during the London attacks in July 2005.”
One is aware, when reading that, of a monstrous evil only just out of sight.