FORMER WorldCom Inc chairman Bernard Ebbers has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating the largest accounting fraud in US history, an $11 billion (€8.9bn) scheme that drove his company into bankruptcy.

The founder of US cable TV firm Adelphia Communications has been arrested.

The founder of US cable television giant Adelphia Communications was arrested today along with two of his sons and accused of looting the now-bankrupt company and using it as their ‘‘personal piggy bank.’’