Firstprison sentences for a carbon credit boiler room, UK, April 2013
A British Columbia securities regulator froze a $1 million wire to Switzerland in 2010; two men were arrested a month later and in 2013 got eight and four and a half years for a $9 million carbon credit boiler room.
The City of London Police described it as the first jail sentences for a carbon credit fraud.
Source: REDD-Monitor, by Chris Lang. Read more: carbon credit fraud · case file