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A senior interest-rate trader at one of Australia’s biggest banks is embroiled in a controversy after he blamed China for the coronavirus pandemic and criticized the state of U.S. society and politics.
Bogac Ozdemir, a Singapore-based global head of credit at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., wrote on LinkedIn in early March that “we are all in this mess because of China and I don’t believe anything from there,” adding that “Americans do not have a government anymore.”