Bank manager dabbles as Robin Hood

Posted at 22:13 on 16 June, 2007

A few years in prison and 168 counts of embezzlement for wanting to help the unemployed and poor. It's straight out of Sherwood Forest.

A German bank manager has been jailed after he took £1.5m from rich clients' accounts and moved it to clients struggling with debts. His efforts meant single mothers, pensioners, and even a young man made jobless by ill health suddenly found thousands of pounds credited to their accounts.

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