Nick Leeson: Lack of appetite to take bankers to court

‘Rogue trader’ says there are no real consequences for bankers from authorities in Ireland and Britain

Rogue trader Nick Leeson has claimed authorities in Ireland and Britain do not have the appetite to prosecute bankers.

Twenty years since his spectacularly fraudulent punts broke Barings, one of the UK’s oldest merchant banks, the former derivatives broker hit out at apathy he sees among criminal justice chiefs and politicians.