Article: Dust settles at Deutsche Bank.

Byline: Ian Kerr

Who is the unlikely heroine of European banking and the toast of Frankfurt and the City of London? Even the most cynical market observers raised a glass or two 10 days ago to Judge Brigitte Koppenhofer in Germany.She had listened to weeks of evidence, thought the prosecution's argument contained more hot air than a Zeppelin and threw out criminal charges against the six main defendants in the highly publicised Mannesmann trial in Dusseldorf.

I saluted Koppenhofer's decision because this was a case which should never have been allowed to go to trial. Not only was it going to be a waste of time and huge amounts of money but it was also an ...

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