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Jail rogue bankers in future, say MPs: Long-awaited report will call for criminal sanctions for those involved in banking scandals

A panel of MPs and peers will next week urge the government to jail miscreant bankers.

The banking commission, set up by chancellor George Osborne in the wake of the Libor interest rate rigging scandal, has put the finishing touches to its long-awaited report on standards and culture.

One of its key proposals will be the creation of new criminal offences to deal with the type of behaviour seen by bankers during recent scandals.

Clampdown: The banking commission is set to deliver a landmark report on the standards and culture of the industry

‘The commission was unanimous that one of the most shocking things about the financial crisis was that at the end no one was sent off in hand cuffs and an orange boiler suit. We will propose criminal sanctions,’ one person familiar with the report said last night.

The report is expected to be published within the next few days.

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One of the many proposals will be criminal sanctions for bankers involved in wrongdoing.  It will also call for a crackdown on bonuses and tougher fines for banks, raising concerns that the City watchdog has been far too lenient.

Every high street bank has been mired in scandal, from the mis-selling of payment protection insurance to the rigging of crucial Libor interest rates used to set mortgages.

Although dozens of bankers have been sacked for these debacles, none has been jailed.

When it published its initial report in December the commission said this was one of its key area of focus.

Sanctions: Chairman of the committee MP Andrew Tyrie questioned how bankers guilty of fraudulent behaviour are walking the streets

Chairman and conservative MP Andrew Tyrie said: ‘We call this the orange boiler suit question. Howcan bankers be fined for fraudulent, duplicitous, criminal behaviour and still be walking the streets?’

In a speech delivered on Wednesday night at St Paul’s Cathedral, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Britain’s banks should operate with a “fear of hell and the hope of heaven” if they are restore the City’s reputation and become better citizens in the future.

The commission will also call for a crackdown on bonuses.  According to a source, this will include the amount or ‘quantum’ of pay-outs and the way they are structured.

It believes bankers should have to wait longer to receive bonuses and that they should be harder to achieve.

Anger over fat cat pay bubbled over in March when Barclays slipped out details of a £40 million shares jackpot for nine executives on Budget Day.

This included a £17.6 million pay out for former investment bank chief Rich Ricci. The huge windfall comprised share bonuses awarded in previous years.

It wants to impose a ‘duty of care’ on top executives after a string of failed bank bosses, including former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin, have largely escaped censure.

This could include making making them personally liable for a repetition of the PPI scandal.

The findings of the Parliamentary commission will have to be taken seriously by the Chancellor, who is set to give his annual Mansion House speech next Wednesday.

The report is expected to include a section on the future of RBS. Among a series of proposals, it will ask the government to consider splitting RBS into a ‘good bank’ to lend to the economy and a ‘bad bank’ which will house the lender’s toxic assets.


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