What’s really behind this case emerges in this comment on a piece about the verdict at The Guardian:
15 June 2012 7:43PM
Response to GreenRevolution, 15 June 2012 7:24PM
20 years for something which is perfectly normal in investment banking? How are you gonna make money, ha?
“Twenty years in jail but will his assets, which have presumably been secreted away in to some tax haven, also be found and confiscated for the betterment of anyone but him and his family.”