Hayes Said Traders Would Help Rig Libor for a Mars Bar

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Libor rigging was commonplace at UBS Group AG and was as easy as offering colleagues a bar of chocolate, Tom Hayes said in a nine-year-old Internet message shown to jurors at his criminal trial.

In a September 2006 conversation, an interdealer broker asked Hayes whether Libor fixings were manipulated.