Leeson Abandons Efforts to Avoid Extradition to Singapore

On October 30, 1995, the media carried a report that Mr. Nick Leeson has relinquished his efforts to avoid extradition to Singapore and will return there to meet charges that, in his capacity as a derivatives trader for Baring, he hid losses that led to the collapse of the U.K. merchant bank in February 1995...(more)