AFP, New York :
US prosecutors formally abandoned a four-year old case against two traders implicated in the “London Whale” scandal Friday, citing an inability to extradite the defendants to appear in an American court.
US attorneys in New York are dropping the cases against Julien Grout of France and Javier Martin-Artajo of Spain, who were accused of being key figures in covering up $6.2 billion (5.7 billion euros) in trading losses at JPMorgan Chase in a scandal that blew up in 2012.
US prosecutors formally abandoned a four-year old case against two traders implicated in the “London Whale” scandal Friday, citing an inability to extradite the defendants to appear in an American court.
US attorneys in New York are dropping the cases against Julien Grout of France and Javier Martin-Artajo of Spain, who were accused of being key figures in covering up $6.2 billion (5.7 billion euros) in trading losses at JPMorgan Chase in a scandal that blew up in 2012.
