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Cleared Metropolis merchants blame ‘purge’ as they hit out at rate-rigging prosecutions | Cash Information

Editorial Board Published July 24, 2025
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Town merchants wrongfully convicted within the aftermath of the monetary disaster have spoken out about their decade-long battle for justice, claiming they had been scapegoats.

Tom Hayes was the primary of 9 merchants to prosecuted by the Severe Fraud Workplace.

In 2012, he was accused of rigging Libor – an rate of interest on loans and monetary contracts that was used all through the monetary system. The speed was decided every day, based mostly on submissions from a number of giant banks.

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Mr Hayes was initially sentenced to 14 years in jail, one of many hardest sentences ever handed out for white collar crime. He served greater than 5 years in jail, together with on the excessive safety jail Belmarsh.

Picture:Tom Hayes (left) and Carlo Palombo outdoors courtroom on Wednesday. Pic: Reuters

Mr Hayes mentioned he was made answerable for harm brought on by the monetary disaster. “There was this zeitgeist that existed where they wanted to send bankers to prison… we were unlucky,” he mentioned.

He was joined by Carlo Palombo, who was convicted in 2019 for rigging Euribor, the Euro Libor charge.

Mr Palombo mentioned he spent most of his days in a small cell that he shared with one other inmate at Wandsworth Jail.

He mentioned he was the sufferer of a “purge” by banks and regulators as they sought to absolve themselves of the implications of the crash.

“The stuff of which I was accused and convicted was something that was done completely openly by absolutely every single person… it was just a normal business practice of the bank,” he mentioned.

Supreme Court docket judges mentioned the 2 males didn’t obtain truthful trials as a result of the juries had been misdirected within the unique circumstances. Primarily, that they had been instructed their behaviour was dishonest with out reaching that conclusion themselves.

Each males are actually making an attempt to maneuver on with their lives. Mr Hayes mentioned he needed to maneuver to the ocean and rebuild his household.

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