Former Barclays banker pleaded guilty to Libor rigging

By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - Peter Johnson, a former senior Barclays banker, pleaded guilty in October 2014 to conspiring to manipulate Libor, a leading benchmark for pricing financial transactions worldwide, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said a court order restricting publicity of the guilty plea had been lifted five weeks into the London trial of five other former Barclays bankers on Libor rigging charges. Johnson's guilty plea, the first in a Libor-rela