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Kweku Adoboli: What the email said

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    20 November 2012
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Here is the full text of what the prosecution branded a "bombshell" email sent by Kweku Adoboli to chartered accountant William Steward. It was sent after Adoboli lost £1.4bn of Swiss bank UBS's money. Annotations, highlighted in yellow below, explain what the key sections of the email mean. It contains some strong language.

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