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(FILES) This file picture dated 02 March 1995 shows Nick Leeson (L) as he is arrested at Frankfurt's airport after returning from Singapore. It was reported in the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post 04 April 1999 that the "Rogue Trader" Leeson, whose risky deals while in Singapore helped cause the collapse of Britain's oldest merchant bank Barings, will be released in July 1999, almost three years before the completion of his six and a half year sentence in Singapore.