Something is wrong in the UK if perpetrators of violent crime are given suspended or minimum sentences, yet business execs - at no personal gain - fiddle the figures and face jail time.
People in these sorts of positions stand to earn bonus payments many times their salary if healthy profits come out at the end of the financial year. To say they are doing it for no personal gain is stretching the truth a little.
If convicted they will become criminal fraudsters who have in effect swindled a lot of people out of their money. For this they need to be punished.
I agree with you that other criminals get an easy time though and that is clearly very wrong.