Summary
TEN years ago today, Nick Leeson was a stressed-out wreck desperate to find a way out of explaining how Barings Securities had become hundred of millions of dollars in the red. With the fast- approaching storm threatening to engulf him, he and his wife, Lisa, packed a couple of suitcases and headed to Singapore airport, where they boarded a flight to Germany.
Arrest, extradition, conviction and a six-and-a-half year jail sentence in Singapore's notorious Changi prison followed. Then divorce and a battle with cancer in prison, which he won, only to be told he might end up sterile.See the full content of this document
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What Happened to the Man Who Brought Down Barings?
Today, life for the man who brought down Barings Bank after losing it GBP 860 million could not be more different....
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