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Vienna: All nine defendants in Austria's biggest banking scandal BAWAG fraud case were given prison terms Friday, with the bank's former CEO getting the maximum sentence of nine and a half years in jail.
Helmu Elsner, CEO of the Bank fur Arbeit und Wirtschaft (BAWAG) was found guilty of breach of trust and serious fraud, as he had ordered "aggressive and high-risk" investments carried out by US-based investor Wolfgang Floettl in the Caribbean.
Eight bank managers and Floettl were found responsible for having caused losses to the bank from off-shore investments between 1995 and 2000 and hidden them.
The US-based investor was sentenced to two years and a half in jail. He had received funds from Austria's fourth largest bank with the full knowledge of not being able to pay them back, the court found.
The eight managers were given jail terms of between 10 months and five years, pending appeals by the defendants.
The scandal reverberated beyond the financial sector as the losses severely weakened one of its former owners, the Austrian Trade Union Federation.
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