The former head of Optimal, the Geneva-based hedge fund investment arm of Spanish bank Santander, has been charged with criminal mismanagement of client funds that were placed with fraudulent US broker Bernard Madoff.
西班牙桑坦德银行(Santander)旗下位于日内瓦的对冲基金投资部门Optimal的前 负责人曼努埃尔•埃切维里亚(Manuel Echeverría)遭到刑事指控，罪名是对客户资金管理失当。这些资金被委托给诈骗犯、美国经纪人伯纳德·马多夫(Bernard Madoff)。

　　Manuel Echeverría was charged as part of a probe by Geneva investigating magistrate Marc Tappolet, according to legal sources and a court document seen by the Financial Times.
据法律界消息人士和英国《金融时报》获得的一份法庭文件显示，埃切维里亚是在日内瓦侦讯法官马克·塔伯里特(Marc Tappolet)展开的一项调查中遭到指控的。

　　He is one of the most senior wealth managers known to be facing criminal charges connected with the Madoff scandal.
在目前已知面临与马多夫丑闻有关刑事指控的人士中，他是资历最深的基金经理之一。

　　The bank admitted client losses of up to €2.33bn ($3.5bn) through Optimal funds, although it subsequently offered compensation packages.
桑坦德银行承认，客户通过Optimal基金的损失高达23.3亿欧元（合35亿美元），但它随后提出了补偿方案。

　　Mr Echeverría, who moved from Optimal last year to Swiss money manager Notz Stucki but then left, was charged in August with mismanagement with the aim of self-enrichment.
埃切维里亚去年离开Optimal，跳槽至瑞士基金管理公司Notz Stucki，但随后又离开。他在今年8月被控管理不善，试图中饱私囊。

　　The charge, however, became known only this week after Mr Echeverría failed in a legal bid to disqualify Franck Berlamont, an asset manager who lost client money and $101,000 of his personal funds, as a civil party to the case.
但这项指控直到本周才曝光。此前，埃切维里亚在试图让弗兰克·博拉蒙特(Franck Berlamont)丧失本案民事当事人资格的法律行动中败北。博拉蒙特是一名资产经理人，他通过Optimal亏损了客户资金和自己的10.1万美元资金。

　　Mr Tappolet had already charged five directors of Aurelia Finance for mismanaging assets entrusted to Mr Madoff.
塔伯里特已对Aurelia Finance的五名董事提出指控，罪名是对委托给马多夫的资产管理不当。

　　The core argument of the case against Mr Echeverría – and of the accusations against Santan-der by Mr Berlamont – is that Mr Echeverría was rewarded with financial commissions as a result of the Madoff investments but misled investors by wrongly claiming to have conducted adequate due diligence on Mr Madoff's operations.

　　针对埃切维里亚案——以及博拉蒙特对桑坦德银行指控——的核心论据是，埃切维里亚从对马多夫的投资中获得了佣金，但却错误地声称已对马多夫的业务进行了充分的尽职调查，从而误导了投资者。

　　维克托•马莱(Victor Mallet)马德里、海格•西蒙尼恩(Haig Simonian)苏黎世、乔安娜•钟(Joanna Chung)纽约报道。