The gears started moving last week in the competition regulator’s titanic criminal cartel case when a judge in Adelaide ordered that so-far confidential, unredacted copies of five-year-old statements by JPMorgan executives be handed to him on Monday.
These statements were taken from JPMorgan managers, traders and executives shortly after a now-infamous $2.5 billion ANZ capital raising in August 2015 that fell short, leaving $800 million of shares in the hands of the underwriters: JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup.