Roger Jenkins was once one of Britain’s most powerful bankers, earning as much as £75m in 2005. But sitting in the dock at London’s Old Bailey dressed down in a dark jumper and trousers, it was sometimes difficult to remember that he was once the “gatekeeper” of Barclays Bank’s multibillion-pound relationship with Qatar’s then prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jabr al-Thani, who he had first met on board a yacht in Sardinia.
羅傑•詹金斯(Roger Jenkins)曾是英國最具權勢的銀行家之一,其2005年的收入高達7500萬英鎊。但是,當他身穿深色套頭衫和深色長褲、坐在「老比利」(Old Bailey,指倫敦中央刑事法庭——譯者注)的被告席上時,有時讓人很難記得他曾經是巴克萊銀行(Barclays Bank)與卡達時任首相謝赫哈馬德•本•賈比爾•阿勒薩尼(Sheikh Hamad Bin Jabr Al-Thani)之間數十億英鎊關係的「看門人」——詹金斯與哈馬德最初是在薩丁尼亞島(Sardinia)的一艘遊艇上認識的。