Financial Times – Crispin Odey urged woman he groped at work to downplay incident to FCA

The Financial Times reports that a woman has accused the hedge fund manager Crispin Odey of groping her at work and asking her to “play down” the incident to the Financial Conduct Authority.

The paper says that the woman said she was assaulted while working at the hedge fund in 2005, and that Odey later confessed to the incident but said that, at the time, he had just come back from undergoing a dental procedure and was under heavy medication. 

The woman told the firm’s lawyers about the incident during an internal inquiry in 2021, the findings of which were later shared with the Financial Conduct Authority.