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NRI businessmen get 25-year jail term

London: Three Indian-origin businessmen, who swindled banks in Britain and the United States of more than £300 million by pretending to run a worldwide metal trading empire, were sentenced to nearly 25 years in jail by a U.K. court on Thursday. Virendra Rastogi (39), Anand Jain (43) and Gautam Majumdar (57) were convicted at London’s Southwark Crown Court.

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