Monday, December 22, 2014

Financial 'riggers' to face up to seven years in prison

The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has announced that the rigging of foreign exchange rates and certain other financial benchmarks will become a criminal offence.


The crime will carry a maximum sentence of seven years in prison and comes after scandals involving the rigging rates such as Libor, the London Interbank Offered Rate.


Our London Correspondent Rachel Stanton reports. 


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