Search Results for: Fraud
Fiat Chrysler suspected of emissions fraud
May 23rd, 2016
German regulators suspect that Italian-American auto maker Fiat Chrysler, like Volkswagen, used illegal software to cheat on emissions tests, a newspaper report said yesterday. The German Federal Motor Vehicle Office (KBA) had sent a report voicing the suspicion to ...
SEC announced fraud charges against 10 individuals involved in schemes to trick investors
May 4th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against 10 individuals involved in schemes to trick investors into buying shares of a particular company stock. The schemes were allegedly fraught with cash bribes and other kickbacks to registered ...
Financial Services industry losing £165 million in invoice fraud
April 28th, 2016
Businesses in financial services (FS) are losing more than £165 million in invoice fraud every year. According to the new research published today by Tungsten, this amounts to £1,969 per business. Of those affected, one in five believes the ...
Deutsche Bank CEO acquitted of fraud
April 27th, 2016
The co-CEO of Deutsche Bank has been acquitted of attempted fraud charges after a yearlong trial. Juergen Fitschen’s charges were linked to the bank’s long-running battle with the heirs of a now-deceased media mogul – ABC reports. The regional ...
Accountant defrauded companies and cost colleagues jobs
April 25th, 2016
Woman on six figure salary cons employers out of 1.8 million A Berkshire woman has been jailed for a catalogue of fraud against her employers in a case described by the judge as ‘about as bad a case as ...
Fraudsters ordered to pay £11 million in large boiler room case
April 21st, 2016
Convicted fraudsters Jeffrey Revell-Reade and Anthony May were today ordered to pay a total of £11, 001,000 in compensation, at Southwark Crown Court. At a hearing overseen by HHJ Gledhill QC, Jeffrey Revell-Reade, 51, an Australian national, was ordered ...
SEC announced penalties on two Accounting fraud cases
April 20th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a pair of financial fraud cases against companies and then-executives accused of various accounting failures that left investors without accurate depictions of company finances. In one case, technology manufacturer Logitech International agreed ...
Broker sentenced to prison after defrauding investors
April 14th, 2016
Broker Michael Donnelly sentenced to prison after defrauding elderly, SEC says He provided fake information about their investment holdings to hide his scheme A federal court in Philadelphia has sentenced broker Michael Donnelly to 99 months in prison for ...
Fake Bitcoin Investment scam defrauded over 1,000 people
March 24th, 2016
A Taiwanese couple seems to have managed to con at least a thousand people by luring them to invest into a fake bitcoin-based investment scheme. This couple reportedly orchestrated the whole program by using two well-known instant messaging applications ...
CFTC Charges Two Binary Options Firms with Fraud, Illegal Off-Exchange Activity, and Operating in an Unregistered Capacity
March 16th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that a federal district court has unsealed a civil Complaint that the CFTC filed with the Northern District of Illinois on February 2, 2016, against two foreign web-based binary options ...
