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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 ...
PwC Vatican audit suspended
April 25th, 2016
THE MUCH VAUNTED first external audit into the Vatican’s opaque finances has been halted. A Vatican spokesman said the audit by PwC had been suspended. Vatican watchers point to widening tensions between the Church’s reforming wing – championed by the Pope Francis-appointed ...
Is Deutsche Bank’s Gold Manipulation The Main Scam Or Just A Side-Show?
April 18th, 2016
For years now, the easiest way to finesse a debate over whether precious metals markets are manipulated has been to say, “well, if they’re not manipulated they’re the only market that isn’t.” That was unsatisfying, though, because as the ...
SRA shuts down five firms in the space of a week
April 12th, 2016
The Solicitors Regulation Authority today closed a fifth firm in the space of a week following suspicions of dishonesty. The regulator intervened into Huddersfield firm Taylor Knight and Wolff Ltd citing reason to suspect dishonesty on the part of ...
David Cameron had stake in father’s offshore trust
April 8th, 2016
David Cameron has said he and his wife Samantha owned shares in an offshore trust set up by his late father, before selling them for £30,000 in 2010. The PM has faced questions over Blairmore Holdings, an offshore company ...
China Foreign-Exchange Reserves Rise for First Time in Five Months
April 8th, 2016
Increase comes as the yuan has staged a recovery in recent weeks China’s foreign-currency reserves rose during March, the first increase in five months, a sign Beijing may have partially succeeded in stemming heavy capital outflows that destabilized global ...
Can A Divided OPEC Agree On Anything In Doha?
April 6th, 2016
Only two weeks remain until the fated meeting between the OPEC countries and their counterparts from outside the organization, scheduled to take place in the Qatari capital of Doha on the coast of the Persian Gulf. The meeting could ...
UBS, HSBC Offshore Dealings Thrust Into Panama Papers Spotlight
April 5th, 2016
Report describes UBS’s dealings with law firm Mossack Fonseca Both banks say they comply with laws for vetting customers UBS Group AG and HSBC Holdings Plc — two of the banks hardest hit amid a U.S. crackdown on customers’ illicit ...
Why Japan’s plan to raise the number of lawyers it hasn’t worked out
April 4th, 2016
Japan is struggling with an unlikely problem: Its people aren’t litigious enough. Fifteen years ago, the nation kicked off a plan to double the number of lawyers. Officials thought they could breathe dynamism into society by mimicking the Western ...
Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin
April 4th, 2016
A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $2bn has laid a trail to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. An unprecedented leak of documents shows how this money has made members of Putin’s close circle fabulously wealthy. Though the ...