Vlad the impaler

摘要

At first blush it sounds rou-tine, even praiseworthy. An extremely wealthy businessman is suspected of committing fraud and tax evasion. Prosecutors labour for months to assemble their case, pulling in some of the businessman's closest associates for questioning along the way, before finally deciding to arrest and charge their real target. It is just the sort of thing that Americans might see as welcome evidence, post-Enron, of a zeal to tackle corporate crooks and to clean up capitalism's messes.