Lehman Brothers estimates have been robbed. Lawyers for the holding company representing the defunct U.S. bank filed a complaint against the British bank Barclays in order to recover billions of dollars wrongly attributed to it at the sale in secret activities of brokerage Lehman in September 2008. In a complaint filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan (New York), Lehman believes that the sale was "secretly arranged at the outset to provide a benefit that Barclays was not expected" and that the bankruptcy judge has not been informed at the time.
Lehman Barclays accuses of having been awarded some $ 7 billion of assets in excess of the transaction, plus 5 billion once the sale is concluded.
In its complaint, the U.S. bank, which had declared bankruptcy in September 15, 2008 following the subprime crisis and the refusal of the U.S. state to help, now wants to make as Barclays Lehman "all profits obtained improperly, and damages. Among its charges, including Lehman puts into question the role of several of its leaders at the time who took part in the transaction before joining Barclays Capital.