A BNP Paribas SA trader fired amid a U.S. probe into sanctions violations asked a Paris employment tribunal for about 2.8 million euros (U.S.$3.2 million) days after the same court awarded ex-Societe Generale SA trader Jerome Kerviel more than 450,000 euros.
Philippe de Gentile, former head of structured finance in the bank’s Geneva office, was “sacrificed” during a U.S. investigation into allegations that France’s largest bank violated sanctions against Sudan and Iran, his lawyer said.
The 63-year-old de Gentile “was sacrificed simply so that BNP Paribas could give names to the Americans,” his lawyer, Chantal Giraud-van Gaver, said at a court ...
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