Search Results for: Fraud
Deloitte executive arrested in South Korea on charges for a multibillion dollar accounting fraud
November 7th, 2016
A former Deloitte Anjin executive was detained Wednesday on charges of deliberately ignoring a multibillion dollar accounting fraud involving embattled shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for the former ...
Ex-Wall Street exec sentenced to jail in a $38 million investment fraud case
November 7th, 2016
An Ivy league-educated financier who defrauded friends, family and even a 9/11 victim’s relatives of more than $38 million to feed a gambling habit was sentenced Friday to four years in prison by a Manhattan federal judge. Andrew Caspersen, ...
Investment Adviser Fraudulently Overbilled Clients, Stole Assets for Personal Expenses
October 31st, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Los-Angeles based investment advisory firm and its owner with fraudulently overbilling clients and stealing assets from their trusts to pay such personal expenses as his home mortgage, overseas trips, and leases ...
How a Broker defrauded customers for six years
October 20th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued an announcement to inform for an administrative proceeding against an ex-LPL broker. According the announcement, SEC bars Paul Lebel, an LPL broker from 2008 to 2014 for churning and excessively trading ...
Ex-Tesco bosses to appear in court on fraud and false accounting charges
October 20th, 2016
Christopher Bush, Carl Rogberg and John Scouler previously pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them Three former Tesco executives are to appear in crown court to face charges of fraud and false accounting in relation to a ...
Lloyds Banking Group to introduce new state of the art fraud prevention technology
October 13th, 2016
Lloyds Banking Group is set to become the first organisation in Europe to introduce new state of the art fraud prevention technology, helping protect its 30 million customers from telephone fraudsters.The patented Phoneprinting™ technology, developed by call centre fraud ...
CFTC charges Companies and Individuals with fraud in Selling a Futures Trading System
October 13th, 2016
CFTC Charges Utah Resident Kimball Parker and Florida Resident Timothy Baggett with Fraud and Other Violations in Connection with Offering and Selling a Futures Trading System Parker’s Company, MakeYourFuture, LLC, and Baggett’s Companies, Changes Worldwide LLC and Changes Trading ...
FFA UK reports Financial Fraud increase
October 12th, 2016
Financial fraud in the first half of 2016 increased by a quarter to £399.5 million, enabled by scams and online attacks, new figures published today (Wednesday 12 October 2016) by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) show. Banks’ security ...
Theranos sued by one of its biggest investors, claiming fraud
October 11th, 2016
One of Theranos Inc.’s biggest financial backers has sued the embattled startup and its founder for allegedly lying to attract its nearly $100 million investment, according to a fund document and people familiar with the matter. Partner Fund Management ...
NRGbinary is a case of how scammers can hide in gaps between regulators and defraud thousands of investors
October 6th, 2016
In early 2013, a young Israeli businessman registered a web domain in London for a company called NRGbinary.com. The online options trading website offered clients the opportunity to make large amounts of money from simple bets on the movement ...
