A London-based former Citigroup trader is suing the US bank for more than $112 million, alleging it made materially false and malicious statements to US prosecutors that led to his trial in New York on foreign exchange-rigging charges.
Rohan Ramchandani, the former European head of Citigroup's forex spot market trading desk, alleges in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that Citigroup made false and "gravely derogatory" assertions against him to government investigators and the media after firing him in 2014 without cause.
"Ultimately, Citi quite literally fabricated an antitrust case for the United States Department of Justice against Ramchandani based upon knowingly false allegations that he engaged in market 'manipulation' and 'collusion'," read the complaint filed in the federal court in Manhattan.