Retribution came swiftly for Cho Hyun-ah. Just two months after the Korean Air executive threw an onboard tantrum about macadamia nuts that forced a taxiing jet to return to a gate, she was charged, convicted and sentenced to a year in jail for violating aviation safety rules.
Ms Cho, a member of one of the country’s wealthiest clans, plans to appeal, but she has already spent some time in jail awaiting trial.
Contrast her fate with that of the people who ran HSBC from 2005 to 2007, when the bank’s Swiss private banking arm allegedly held accounts for tax-dodging clients and helped them to conceal money from government authorities.
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