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"From: [Redacted] To: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> Subject: FT TODAY Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014"

"Ashish Thakkar: Bob Diamond's African partner... The pair met a year ago at a mutual friend's party in Cape Town."

"the precocious young man spent the mid-1990s criss-crossing the continent to establish Mara Group"

"Bob Diamond left Barclays under a cloud in 2012 amid the Libor rate-rigging scandal."

"The Atlas Mara cash shell, in which both he and Mr Diamond have personally invested"

"The Atlas Mara cash shell, in which both he and Mr Diamond have personally invested"

"In March it announced its first deal, paying $265m in cash and shares to buy BancABC"

"Bradford Gibbs, the former head of investment banking for South Africa at Morgan Stanley"