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Boiler room fraudsters ordered to pay £843k

15/12/2014(0)
Two men involved in a £70 million boiler room fraud have been ordered to pay £843,000 between them after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. In 2010 Philip ... Read More
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Boss of hedge fund Weavering battles fraud charges in London court

15/12/2014(0)
Magnus Peterson, battling fraud charges after his $600 million Weavering hedge fund collapsed during the financial crisis, told a court on Friday he could not remember which investors he ... Read More
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Melbourne lawyer jailed for 12 years for $12m Ponzi fraud

10/12/2014(0)
‘Many of your victims trusted you because you were a family member or friend, you exploited their trust for your own personal gain,’ judge tells Philip Linacre A Melbourne ... Read More
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Legal leaders join hands against client snooping

09/12/2014(0)
Legal chiefs and academics today demanded new laws to stop police and security services from spying on meetings between lawyers and their clients. In a declaration to mark European ... Read More
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Commodity Benchmarks Seen Open to Manipulation, Law Firm Says

08/12/2014(0)
Almost two-thirds of commodity market participants say that benchmarks used to set the price of everything from crude oil to ethanol to zinc are vulnerable to manipulation, according to ... Read More
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Two Sydney men plead guilty to insider trading

05/12/2014(0)
Two Sydney men, including a former analyst with ratings agency Moody’s, today pleaded guilty to insider trading that netted a profit of more than $180,000. Daniel Joffe, 37, of ... Read More
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Currency trader whizz kid ‘masterminded £5.5m Ponzi fraud’

04/12/2014(0)
A foreign currency trader used investors’ cash as his “personal piggy-bank” and blew £1 million in casinos and £500,000 in nightclubs, a court heard. Financial whizz kid Alex Hope, 25, ... Read More
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Enforcement Directorate probes Rs.20,000 crore hawala link in India-Iran trade, UCO Bank under scanner

04/12/2014(0)
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has begun an open enquiry under FEMA Act, in perhaps – one of the biggest hawala scam – against all those export-import (exim) companies that ... Read More
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Australia probes bitcoin crime links as currency craves legitimacy

03/12/2014(0)
A top Australian law enforcement agency is investigating bitcoin’s role in organized crime, a senior official said, just as politicians and financial regulators embrace the digital currency as a ... Read More
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Hackers launched a destructive cyberattack in the United States

02/12/2014(0)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch a destructive cyberattack in the United States, following a devastating breach last week ... Read More
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