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Rogue futures trader Nicholas Leeson, 28, of Watford, England is escorted by unidentified police officers at Frankfurt airport Thursday March 2, 1995. Leeson who fled Singapore after his deals brought down Britain's 233-year-old Barings bank into bankruptcy with losses estimated to be up to drls 1 billion, was taken into custody with his wife, at Frankfurt Airport Thursday morning. They arrived on a flight from the resort citiy of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian north Borneo.