After London received confirmation from Coopers that the audit had been cleared on Friday 3 February, the question then arose as to whether the SLK issue should be mentioned in the audit review. This issue continued to rumble on in London after it had been cleared in Singapore. On 9 February, Coopers & Lybrand in London had an audit meeting with Geoffrey Broadhurst, whom Duncan Fitzgerald, the C& L manager responsible for the Baring audit. It was at the meeting that Cooper & Lybrand were asked about excluding the whole SLK fiasco from the management letter.