In the USA, the defendants Andrew Pearse, Surjan Singh and Detelina Subeva all pleaded guilty but sentencing was long delayed.

Pearse was convicted for conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud while Singh was convicted for conspiracy to commit money laundering. Subeva was convicted of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Together they accepted over USD50m in kickbacks of which Subeve received USD200,000.

In the days before the book was published in 2025, Pearse was sentenced to time served.

Last week, Subeva was banned from the UK financial industry by the Financial Conduct Authority. She had been sentenced to time served, and forfeiture of the sum USD200,000, in 2022. She had been in custody since 2018.

The FCA explained that its decision to ban Pearse and Singh was delayed until the US Trials were over and the Authority has said the same about Subeva, but it has not explained why the decision to ban her was not made, or perhaps why it was not communicated, in February, 2025, given that she had been released from custody some three years earlier.

All three were senior officers at Credit Suisse and, as is explained in detail in the book, a complex web of fiction led to a massive debt by the government of Mozambique and, perhaps even worse, the dashing of dreams of many ordinary people who thought their lives were going to change for the better.