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A German bank manager has been jailed after he took £1.5m from rich clients' accounts and moved it to clients struggling with debts.

Bespectacled and balding, Peter Taubinger, 45, hardly fit the typical image of the glamorous hero robbing the rich to feed the poor.

But under his management, large sums were transferred from the bank, in the small town of Tauberfranken, after he decided poor people needed it more than the rich.

His efforts meant single mothers, pensioners, and even a young man made jobless by ill health suddenly found thousands of pounds credited to their accounts.

But he turned himself in after he realised he could not cover up what he had done any longer, and has now been sentenced to 34 months in prison on 168 counts of embezzlement.

Bauer said: "I felt for the unemployed and the poor and wanted to help them."