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Jeis Stallie, former CEO of Barclays, is fighting to clarify his name on relations with Jeffrey Epstein, who was once burning to a great colleague that he would not have presented his family to the people of convicted children.

Sasha Wigns, who was the Chief of Staff Staff at the British Bank, now told Barclays and wealth management, to the court on Wednesday that Stali had once asked her: “Why did my wife and daughters submit to Mr. Epstein if I thought he was sexual?”

Wigins said in a statement of the accompanying witnesses that when Stallie was accompanied on a trip to the Mother Pudwin College in 2019 – where he was trying to reassure the Board of Trustees of his relations with Epstein – she was not aware that Epstein had been invited to graduate the daughter of Stali in 2015.

Its evidence came on the third day of the trial, as Stallie tries to cancel a ban and a fine by the financial behavior authority. The UK organizer claims that He played his relationship with EpsteinAnd that was found dead in the prison cell in 2019. It is not allegedly alleged to monitor the censorship that Stali was aware of the Crime of Epstein.

The former Barclays president argues that there was no distortion. Stallie led the bank between December 2015 and November 2021.

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FCA told the court that it would have taken more “urgent” measures, had it not been for the fact that Barclays had provided guarantees that Stallie and Ibstein had no “close” relationship.

Jonathan Davidson, a former FCA former official, told the court on Wednesday that he would have asked Barclays to investigate Stallie’s links with Epstein more comprehensively – and perhaps taking himself – if the bank said that the couple was close.

A few days after the death of Epstein, FCA, President of Barclays Nigel Higgins, asked about the steps she took to ensure that Stallie was not involved in the alleged trafficking and abuse of dozens of teenage girls.

Higgins sent a message to FCA saying that Stallie had confirmed “had no close relationship” with Epstein and “at any time he did not see anything that would have proposed or revealed any aspect of behavior that was the subject of recent allegations.”

FCA lawyers, led by Leigh-Ann Mulcahy KC, argue that the bank’s statements were inaccurate, citing an e-mail study that the former Staley employer delivered JPMorgan who said his observation, and showed that his relationship with Epstein was close, including many trips by a crime banker with Janet’s crime.

“If you receive a response that” yes, there was a close relationship, but we have reassured that there is nothing in it, “Davidson said.

Staley Legal Team, led by Robert Smith KC, ArgueThe real purpose of the Barclays message to the supervisory body was to provide a comprehensive narration of the husband’s relationship, but simply to assure FCA that he does not know Staley or Barclays or participated in Epsin’s criminal behavior.

The court had heard earlier this week that Stallie had given a “clear impression” to the former head of communications at Barclays Stephen Duhreiti – after the appointment of Stallie was reported by financial times in October 2015 – that he was not in contact with Epstein at the time about his role in Barclays. Duhrei told the court that Barclays relied on this impression when it refuted the post by the post on Sunday, when the newspaper was preparing for an article about the relations between the two.

In fact, the court heard that Stallie was in contact with Epstein at the time to discuss his potential appointment as CEO and press inquiries.