<i>In March of 2008, Eriksson was re-arrested in Sweden — only a year after being deported from the US after pleading no contest to charges of embezzlement and illegal gun possession. After trial in Sweden, on July 10, 2009, Eriksson was convicted of extortion, theft and assault, and was sentenced to 18 months in a maximum-security prison. Yet this sentence was for a completely unrelated crime — all involved in the Gizmondo collapse escaped legally clean and free from a debacle that destroyed a multination corporation, and fleeced hundreds of millions of dollars from investors.</i><p>If these guys -- known mobsters dressed up as technology businessmen, living the most conspicuous lifestyle imaginable -- can get away with all this, what other kind of corruption and crime is going on in investment-fuelled industries?