Disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff, who faces sentence on Monday for massive fraud, must forfeit $170bn (€121bn), a judge ordered.

CALLING him a “murderer” and a “monster”, more than 100 victims of Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff have asked the judge, who will sentence him on June 29 for the maximum sentence.

Bernard Madoff’s wife has visited him in the Manhattan jail where he has been held since pleading guilty to orchestrating perhaps the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.

The wife of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff faces having millions of dollars of assets in her own name seized, it emerged today.

Bernard Madoff has agreed to give up the rights to his disgraced investment business and his company's prized artwork and entertainment tickets.