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Paris: A Paris broker was due to appear before an investigating judge on Saturday as part of a widening probe into the rogue trading scandal at French bank Societe Generale, sources close to the inquiry said.
The broker, named as Moussa Bakir of the brokerage Newedge, is being questioned about how much he knew of the activities of Jerome Kerviel, the SocGen trader blamed by the bank for a record $7 billion trading loss.
Prosecutors said they would ask that the broker be placed under formal investigation and kept in temporary detention on suspicion that he knew about Kerviel's illicit deals.
Documents seized by police who raided Newedge's office on Thursday show that Kerviel and Bakir had frequent e-mail exchanges.
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