SYDNEY: The disgraced former chief executive of failed Australian general insurer HIH Insurance Ltd was sentenced to four and a half years in prison yesterday for his role in the country's biggest corporate collapse.
Raymond Reginald Williams, 68, HIH's founder, stepped down in December 2000, just four months before the country's second biggest general insurer crumbled under estimated losses of up to A$5.3bil.
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