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Williams Jailed

Former HIH Insurance chief executive Ray Williams was sentenced to a minimum of two years and nine months imprisonment, with a maximum term of four years and six months. On 14 January 2008, Ray Williams was released from jail after serving just under three years for his role in Australia's largest corporate collapse.

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