Goldman Sachs has been barred from trading on one of the government debt trading platforms owned by MTS, the bond exchange group which rose to prominence during the "Dr Evil" trades scandal by Citigroup in 2004.

An MTS spokesman confirmed it had suspended Goldman for four weeks from January 2 for failing to meet its market making commitments during December on the NewEuroMTS segment, which provides trading in the bonds of non-euro zone countries including Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia and Cyprus.