Word: pala
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...said $80 million had been deposited into a Barings futures account at Citibank. No such transfer took place, and prosecutors are likely to argue that it gave Leeson a way of proving he was making the huge Nikkei trades on behalf of a client. "Once he is here," says Pala Krishnan, one of Singapore's leading criminal attorneys, "the maximum sentence he can receive is 14 years, if he is tried by a lower court. If he is tried by a higher court, then the sentence is life." Leeson and Barings should have got out while they were ahead...