Court throws out Kerviel's SocGen appeal Jérôme Kerviel's bid to overturn a prison sentence was thrown out of court on Wednesday after a Paris judge rejected his appeal. Mireille Filippini, the Paris court judge, upheld the rogue trader's 2010 sentence of three years in prison and a further two years suspended and ordered him to repay Société Générale the €4.9bn of losses incurred by his risky bets. Dressed in a black suit, white shirt and dark tie, the 35-year old looked nervous before the short hearing, for his role in nearly bringing down France's second-biggest bank by market value in 2008. David Koubbi, Mr Kerviel's 39-year old lawyer, said he would discuss with Mr Kerviel an appeal to France's highest court - the Cour de Cassation. Judge Filippini rejected Mr Kerviel's appellate argument that SocGen knew about his €50bn of open bets made in 2008 and tried to use them to mask subprime losses. She upheld the 2010 court order to repay SocGen's the €4.9bn of losses it made in unwinding his uncovered trades on three futures markets. Mr Koubbi described the sum as a "lifetime death sentence" in a pre-court interview. Daniel Bouton, SocGen's former chairman and chief executive had told the court during the appeal that the former trader's actions had put the bank in "mortal danger." Mr Kerviel was found guilty of abuse of trust, forgery and computer abuse. He had acknowledged grounds for computer abuse at his first trial. He admitted faking documents to disguise and to having been caught up in "a spiral." But he argued that his hierarchy turned a blind eye to his trades while they made money. "I am taking my share of responsibility, but I will not be the scapegoat for Société Générale," he said previously. During the appeal, Mr Kerviel's new lawyers took a more aggressive line than his 2010 defence team.