In the U.S. were arrested fraudsters who stole 140 million dollars

In the United States were arrested 6 people who involved in fraud in the brokerage firm on Wall Street, reported federal authorities today. Fraudsters operated more than 10 years, and their turnover was about 140 million dollars.

Details of fraudulent schemes have not yet been disclosed, as well as other details. Today, the detainees should be submitted to the court of Manhattan.

This is not the first detection of large-scale fraud on Wall Street. The financial crisis revealed a number of major wheeler-dealer, the most famous of which was Bernard Medoff – former Chairman of the Board of Directors of NASDAQ Stock Exchange and founder of investment firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities. The loss of investors from fraud of B. Medoff evaluated in more than 60 billion U.S., court recently sentenced him to 150 years in prison.

Another high-profile affair looks like to be a pyramid on the 8 billion dollars, created by Texas billionaire Allen Stanford. Unlike B. Medoff, neither he nor the other suspects in this case has pleaded that they are not guilted.