Helmut Elsner

Fri Jul 4, 8:48 AM
Former director-general of the Austrian BAWAG bank Helmut Elsner arrives for a trial in Vienna. An Austrian court convicted Friday the former chief executive of BAWAG bank and eight others of gambling away 1.72 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) in speculative investments in the country's biggest-ever fraud scandal. Photo:Samuel Kubani/AFP

Former director-general of the Austrian BAWAG bank Helmut Elsner arrives for a trial in Vienna. An Austrian court convicted Friday the former chief executive of BAWAG bank and eight others of gambling away 1.72 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) in speculative investments in the country's biggest-ever fraud scandal. Photo:Samuel Kubani/AFP