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Former Irish bank chief jailed over crisis-era fraud

Former Irish bank chief jailed over crisis-era fraud

  • Judge Karen O’Connor stressed that Drumm was not being jailed for “the financial crisis,” instead “only for the two specific offenses for which he has been convicted.”
  • Anglo Irish Bank required a huge state bailout and was nationalized in 2009, contributing to an economic crisis in Ireland that later forced Dublin to seek an €85-billion-international rescue.
By AFP ·