Rona Fairhead
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| Born | Rona Alison Haig 1961-08-28 Cumbria, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | UK |
| Children | 3 |
| Spouse | Thomas Edwin Fairhead |
| Party | Conservative |
Chairwoman of the BBC Trust, Member of the House of Lords, Single Bilderberg | |
Rona Alison Fairhead, Baroness Fairhead (born 28 August 1961) is a Minister of State at the Department for International Trade. She was the last Chair of the BBC Trust before its abolition and the first woman to hold the post.[1]
HSBC
Rona Fairhead was head of the risk committee of HSBC US at the time they were laundering money for groups such as the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel and "terrorist" groups.[Which?]Template:Cn
In 2012, HSBC entered into a "deferred prosecution agreement" in the US, paying $1.9 billion on the basis that for the next 5 years they would not be involved in any further crimes the subject of the DPA, such as money laundering.
HSBC only avoided prosecution in the US through the involvement of George Osborne (Parliamentary Private Secretary Amber Rudd) on the basis that the world would end if HSBC were prosecuted.[2]