SA fund manager pays R272m bail in US for 'manipulating rand' to get R500m payday | Business

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A South African fund manager charged by US authorities with currency manipulation to trigger a $30-million payout will go on trial in October after being released on a $15-million personal bond. | JanTamb News24_Business

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A South African fund manager charged by US authorities with currency manipulation to trigger a $30-million payout will go on trial in October after being released on a $15-million personal bond. Neil Phillips, the co-founder and former chief investment officer of hedge fund Glen Point Capital, waslast year at the request of US authorities for allegedly manipulating the rand-dollar spot rate.

At the time of his arrest, US authorities alleged that Phillips manipulated the exchange rate to trigger a $20-million payout via an options contract. He has since been charged with orchestrating a separate $10-million payout on another contract. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

 

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JanTamb _Business 😅🤣🤣 and Kleva black were forever blaming Zuma when the rand was acting up kanti it’s being manipulated 🤣😅😂

JanTamb _Business MagnusHeystek nothing genius ? Not even a word!! You love bitching about the country but this you have absolutely no view

JanTamb _Business When is Maria Ramos being arrested? NPA_Prosecutes

JanTamb _Business That time SA authorities are just bystanders, the anc doesn’t know how to govern, all they know is looting.

JanTamb _Business 💔🙆🏾‍♂️🙆🏾‍♂️🙆🏾‍♂️Oh ffs Neil…

JanTamb _Business Nayi lenja

JanTamb _Business I don't have to read the story to know he is white. There's a certain way reports about white crimes are written.

JanTamb _Business Now that is what I love about the US they will never take a bribe..

JanTamb _Business European & US fund managers do this with the ZAR ALL THE TIME & they just get fined & never go to jail? Why do our fund managers who do the same with their currencies go to jail? Balance me! We know the ZAR isnt 18 to the USD at most it's about 12 to the USD, but here we are...

JanTamb _Business Neil Phillips must rot in jail for high treason. This guy and his kind make me sick.

JanTamb _Business Does he happen to be white?

JanTamb _Business He is white neh?

JanTamb _Business He is yt😂😂🤗 aykhale

JanTamb _Business This is him Neil Phillips co-founder of Glen Point Capital Backed by George Soros and Hedge Fund he is a scammer He's part of the group that brought us Cyril Our God is working overtime because they falling at the same time unfortunately for Cyril his will be worse

JanTamb _Business

JanTamb _Business In South Africa they would do nothing and appoint her in some SOEs just like Maria Ramos

JanTamb _Business What is SA authorities especially the NPA doing about it?

JanTamb _Business SOUTH AFRICANS WILL SOON SAY HE JA FOREIGNERS THAT SOUTH AFRICAN PAPERS

JanTamb _Business Name that white guys name and show his face by now u should know better,as long u don't show him and tell us his name we know its white men or women cous le based ba lona kedi satane

JanTamb _Business Show us he's face

JanTamb _Business Guess the race

JanTamb _Business Does he have a name and photo perhaps?

JanTamb _Business A young pic of him?

JanTamb _Business Ba muthumile.

JanTamb _Business He's corrupt white person. How do I know it? Face is shown only when it is a black person 🤮🤮🤮🤮

JanTamb _Business I thought South Africans don't commit crimes

JanTamb _Business Anonymous Manager 😂🤣🚮

JanTamb _Business His pic?

JanTamb _Business Show his White a$$

JanTamb _Business Why don’t you put his picture? Oooh cause his White

JanTamb _Business Good. But we remain focused on Phalaphalafarmgate. We will follow both / all stories. Greylisting affects all of us.

JanTamb _Business So he is.. (you know)

JanTamb _Business Surely u do have his picture!!! Why don’t u splash it out in the front page as always do with black “criminals”

JanTamb _Business White do you mean realsed on personal bond?

JanTamb _Business MagnusHeystek so what’s your view about this ? Friend of yours ? 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

JanTamb _Business He saw someone getting away with it in this pathetic Republic and thought everybody else round the world accept that kind of treasonous act,they should give give him 30 years

JanTamb _Business In SA the bail money could have been 2000 rand. 😂 for someone who has stolen more than 200 million.

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