Spain prosecutors seek five years jail for ex-IMF head Rato

Spanish prosecutors have asked for former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato to be jailed for five years over the failed 2011 listing of Bankia, a bank he led which later had to be rescued by the state.

Rato, a former Spanish economy minister, has already been sentenced to four years and six months in a separate case for misusing funds when he was the boss of Bankia, and Caja Madrid before that.

In a court filing seen by

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