HONG KONG - Rogue futures trader Nick Leeson, who brought down Britain‘s oldest bank, will be released early from prison in Singapore on July 3, Hong Kong‘s Sunday Morning Post said. The paper quoted Singapore‘s Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng as saying that ailing Leeson was being released not on compassionate grounds, but for good behaviour. "Under our prison regulations, we don‘t release a person just because he is sick. He has to serve his sentence," Wong said. Home Affairs Ministry and Prisons Department officials in Singapore were unavailable for comment on the report on Sunday. Leeson, 32, was given a 70 percent survival chance after a cancerous abdominal tumour was removed in August. Leeson was jailed for six and a half years in December 1995 for fraud after landing merchant bank Barings with a US$1.4 billion debt after a series of losing bets on financial markets.