Two men have already pleaded guilty in the US to fraud offences linked to the rigging of Libor, for years the benchmark by which trillions of pounds of financial contracts are based.
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In this case, there's no mystery or puzzle to be solved. Stiff prison sentences will go a long way toward reducing the culture of criminality in the banking industry.
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