Before his conviction on Monday, Tom Hayes, a 35-year-old former UBS and Citigroup derivatives trader, argued he had merely been taking part in a widespread practice of manipulating the Libor benchmark of interest rates. Sentencing him to 14 years’ imprisonment, Mr Justice Cooke saw things differently. “The fact that others were doing the same as you is no excuse,” he said.
在周一被定罪之前，35歲的前瑞銀(UBS)和花旗集團(Citigroup)衍生品交易員湯姆?海耶斯(Tom Hayes)辯稱，他只是參與了操縱倫敦銀行間同業拆借利率(Libor)的普遍行為。然而，庫克法官(Justice Cooke)不這么看，他在判海耶斯14年徒刑的時候說：“其他人與你做同樣的事不是借口。”
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