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WASHINGTON--The Federal Government opened criminal investigations in approximately 50 executives and guiding us banks are collapsed during the financial crisis.

Assistant Inspector General Fred Gibson said Wednesday Office of Inspector General at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has been probing the role of the executives of bank failures throughout the country.

Criminal investigations are separated from civil suits, approved by the FDIC against some 80 employees and directors Bank executives.The FDIC seeks to recover approximately 2 billion in losses from Bank regulator are the result of negligence or foul by managers or directors.

The FDIC has shut down or seized 311 banks since January 2008 77 billion dollars.Les criminal probes were reported earlier by the Wall Street Journal.

Frameworks of the Bank could face imprisonment if recognized guilty of criminal charges. But the burden of proof is higher than in civil litigation and usually involves showing the deliberate intent to commit fraud or other violations.

Office of the Inspector General is working with the FBI investigation is customary in such cases. Gibson did not identify the banks or the persons concerned.

Most of those targeted in civil actions also have not been appointed.FDIC attorneys were talks settlement with frameworks.

Exception happened in July when the FDIC sued four former leaders failed IndyMac Bank .the ' regulator seeks to 300 million dollars in damages and interests against four former officials of the builders of the Bank Division: Scott Van Dellen Richard Koon, Kenneth Shellem, William Rothman.The collapse of IndyMac based in California in July 2008 was one of the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.It cost the deposit insurance fund of $ 12.7 billion.

The FDIC alleges in combining the former leaders approved by negligent manufacturers had a thin chance to be four remboursé.Les loans have denied the allegations.

Most of the banks failed in 2008 or later, Gibson said in an interview téléphonique.Ces cases take generally two to four years of study to prosecution by the Department of justice to the resolution, he said.

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