Lex Greensill ‘slippery and prone to lying', court told
London | The former head of SoftBank's Vision Fund described financier Lex Greensill as 'slippery and prone to lying', according to correspondence disclosed in a complex $US440 million London court battle between the Japanese conglomerate and a fund of the defunct bank Credit Suisse.
Rajeev Misra made the comment in an email to a colleague at SoftBank, whose funds were a big investor in Lex Greensill's eponymous lending company before its collapse in 2021 triggered a sprawling political and financial scandal.
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