Furious Credit Suisse investors say bank’s board should be ‘put behind bars’

Shareholders lash out during final AGM as boss apologises for crisis that led to takeover of lender by UBS

Furious Credit Suisse investors at its final ever annual meeting blocked executive pay plans and called for board members to be put behind bars", as the Swiss lender's chair said he was truly sorry" over the bank's demise.

Shareholders used most of the nearly five-hour annual general meeting in Zurich - the last in the 167-year-old bank's history - to voice fury over poor management, hitting out at excessive pay for incompetent and greedy" bankers who they said took too many risks and endangered Switzerland's economic prosperity.