Three Britons Made a Killing On Enron

Three British bankers are wanted in the US because of their involvement in scandal around the US?s former energy giant Enron. They are to apply for a High Court judicial review as they fight their extradition.

David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby, stating that they are innocent and should be tried by a British jury, applied for a review of a decision by the Serious Fraud Office not to try them in the UK.

Mr Bermingham, Mr Mulgrew and Mr Darby are also accusing the US Government of unlawfully exploiting new extradition legislation intended to deal with terrorist suspects.

Earlier this year they said they were prepared for a long fight to prevent their extradition.

The US has accused the three men of seven counts of "wire fraud" - illegally gaining money via international banking systems. According to the allegations, in the year of 2000 the three former NatWest executives advised their company to sell part of an Enron business it owned for less than the stake was worth. Then they left NatWest, bought into the firm themselves and sold it off for a much higher fee, pocketing about $2.7m each in the process, prosecutors say.