Citigroup used a London banker as ‘scapegoat’ in $45m failure—now he wants to return to work for the bank after winning an unfair dismissal lawsuit

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A Citigroup banker who claims he was used as a “scapegoat” in a $45 million regulatory failure wants to come back and work for the bank again after winning a lawsuit against his former employer.

Judges at a U.K. employment tribunal ruled Ian Weir, a former pan-Asian equities trader based in London, was unfairly dismissed after the bank received a hefty fine for a decade of regulatory oversights, Bloomberg reports.