Kweku Adoboli

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kweku Adoboli
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	May 21, 1980(1980-05-21)
Age	44
Birthplace	Tema
Country	Ghana
Birth City	Greater Accra Region
Horoscope	Taurus

Kweku Adoboli Biography

Kweku Adoboli is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on May 21, 1980 in Tema, Greater Accra Region, Ghana.

Kweku Adoboli (born 21 May 1980) is a Ghanaian investment manager and former stock trader. He was convicted of illegally trading away US$2 billion (GB£1.3 billion) as a trader for Swiss investment bank UBS. While at the bank he primarily worked on UBS’ Global Synthetic Equities Trading team in London where he engaged in what would later be known as the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal. After serving a prison sentence, he lost several appeals against the Home Office decision to deport him to Ghana.

On 15 September 2011, Adoboli was arrested by City of London Police. He was charged with two counts of fraud by abuse of position and four counts of false accounting. He was in prison on remand until 8 June 2012, when he was granted bail subject to being electronically tagged and placed under curfew at a friend’s house. On the morning of 20 November 2012, a jury at Southwark Crown Court unanimously found Adoboli guilty on one count of fraud. Later the same day, after receiving an instruction allowing for a majority decision with a single vote against, the jury found him guilty of a second count of fraud. The jury also found him not guilty on the four false accounting charges. He was sentenced to seven years in prison. The City of London Police said: “This was the UK’s biggest fraud, committed by one of the most sophisticated fraudsters the City of London Police has ever come across.”

Kweku Adoboli Net Worth

Kweku Adoboli is one of the richest Economist from Ghana. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kweku Adoboli 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kweku Adoboli was born on 21 May 1980 in Tema, Ghana, to John Adoboli, a senior United Nations official. He spent his early years in Israel, Syria and Iraq, before moving to the United Kingdom in 1991. He attended Ackworth School in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, where he was head boy. In his profile on the school’s website, he wrote that he wanted to be an athlete. In 2000, after finishing school, he started reading Chemical Engineering at the University of Nottingham, but switched to E-commerce and Digital Business Studies. In 2000, he was elected as the Communications Officer of University of Nottingham Students’ Union. In mid-2002, Adoboli worked as a summer intern at UBS’s operations department. He graduated from Nottingham in July 2003.

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Nikola Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ghana. Kweku Adoboli celebrates birthday on May 21 of every year.