Barclays Bank insider helped launder trojan virus scam cash

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  A Barclays Bank insider who helped cybercriminals launder hundreds of thousands of pounds stolen using a trojan horse computer virus is facing jail. Jinal Pethad, 29, opened more than half of the 199 sham accounts used to handle money plundered from a series of UK companies over a two year period. One victim, the medical firm Galen Research, lost more than half a million pounds after one of its employees clicked on a Word document attached to an email…

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