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SEC Halts Ongoing Fraudulent Stock Scheme
July 25th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it has won a court-ordered asset freeze to halt an ongoing fraud by two former brokers with disciplinary histories who allegedly raised more than $5 million from investors without using the money ...
The founder of the Bitcoin Savings and Trust company gets 18 months in prison for Fraud
July 25th, 2016
Trendon Shavers, the mastermind behind the disgraced Bitcoin Savings & Trust Ponzi scheme, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison on one count of securities fraud. In addition, Shavers was ordered to forfeit $1.23 million and to pay ...
Tax advisers in Uk arrested in suspected £132m tax fraud
July 22nd, 2016
Three tax advisers have been arrested as part of a HMRC investigation into a suspected £132m tax fraud. The arrests were made as a result of a HMRC investigation into a complex scheme involving offshore trusts used by professional financial advisers ...
Invoice fraud costs developing countries billions
July 20th, 2016
Some developing countries are losing as much as 67% of their exports to invoice fraud, according to research commissioned by the United Nations (UN), which claims that the over-and-under invoicing of trade transactions over the past two decades has ...
Swiss bank UBS is to face legal action for encouraging tax fraud that could cost it billion euros
July 11th, 2016
Swiss bank UBS, along with several of its former executives, is to face legal action for encouraging tax fraud that could cost it five billion euros, if judges accept a public prosecutor’s recommendation, reports said Friday. The company sent ...
Arrests in Europe and Asia for a Credit Card fraud spread into 14 European countries
July 11th, 2016
A total of 105 suspects have been arrested as the result of a complex investigation run simultaneously in Europe and Asia with the support of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). During the operation led against an organised criminal group ...
Former financial adviser and accountant charged for fraud involving approximately $800,000
July 4th, 2016
Following an ASIC investigation, former financial adviser and accountant, Satvir Singh Birk, aged 40, of Reedy Creek, has today appeared in the Southport Magistrates Court charged with five counts of fraud involving approximately $800,000. ASIC alleges that between September ...
Europol: Searches, seizures and arrests were carried out in eight EU countries against a criminal network involved in international VAT fraud and money laundering
June 30th, 2016
Yesterday, from a coordination centre at Eurojust, Europol supported an international action day against a criminal network involved in international VAT fraud and money laundering defrauding EU citizens of approximately EUR 57 million in tax revenues via companies selling ...
Four companies and eight individuals charged for a $80 million Oil and Gas fraud
June 27th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged four companies and eight individuals in an $80 million oil and gas fraud orchestrated by a Dallas man who calls himself the “Frack Master” for his purported expertise in hydraulic fracturing. The ...
CFTC: Over $2.7 Million penalty for a Commodity Pool Fraud
June 23rd, 2016
Federal Court Orders Dante S. Giovannetti and His Companies Emini Experts, LLC and Capital Trading Concepts LLC to Pay over $2.7 Million in Restitution and Monetary Penalties for Commodity Pool Fraud and Other Violations of the Commodity Exchange Act ...
