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UK hands fraud agency all funds needed for forex probe
November 14th, 2014
Britain’s finance ministry will hand the country’s anti-fraud agency all the funds it needs to conduct a criminal investigation into alleged rigging of the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market, a Treasury source said. Finance minister George Osborne has written to ...
Madoff Trials in Geneva Loom Six Years After Fraudster Confessed
November 13th, 2014
Almost six years after Bernie Madoff admitted his investment firm was based on “one big lie,” two European criminal cases linked to the convicted fraudster are working their way to trial in Geneva. Prosecutor Marc Tappolet is finishing an indictment of ...
SEC to Impose Penalties More Often in Muni Fraud Cases
November 11th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to impose penalties more frequently in the $3.7 trillion municipal securities market. “An enforcement model with no penalties was not sustainable,” Andrew Ceresney, the SEC’s director of enforcement, said during a panel ...
Accountant arrested over suspected £2m VAT fraud
November 7th, 2014
An accountant is among four people arrested in dawn raids yesterday on suspicion of a £2.2m VAT fraud. The four men, three from Essex and one from Hertfordshire, allegedly set up an elaborate scheme of subcontractors within the civil ...
Australian man jailed following $260,000 fraud
October 31st, 2014
ASIC jailed today a New South Wales Central Coast man for 18 months, for committing a $260,000 fraud. William John Jones, of Blue Haven, pleaded guilty in April 2014 to fraudulently misappropriating the money given to him by two ...
Britain’s Fraud Office launches probe into Tesco accounting scandal
October 30th, 2014
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened a formal criminal investigation into accounting errors at Tesco (TSCO.L), raising the stakes in a scandal that has hammered the reputation of the country’s biggest grocer. Already battling challenges on multiple fronts, ...
CFTC charges Texas-Based Financial Robotics, Inc. for Fraudulent Forex Scheme
October 27th, 2014
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Lee H. Rosenthal of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas entered an Order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Defendant Financial Robotics, Inc. ...
Vodafone Starts Audit Into Possible Tax Fraud at Ono Unit
October 27th, 2014
Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) said it has begun an audit into possible tax fraud at Grupo Corporativo Ono SA, the Spanish cable operator Vodafone bought in July. “As soon as Vodafone became aware of the issue we instigated a ...
Serious Fraud Office to seek extra £26.5m funding
October 24th, 2014
Ongoing fraud investigations into Barclays, Rolls-Royce and Libor rigging have forced the Serious Fraud Office to ask the government for an extra £26.5m. The cost of paying compensation to Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz, who built their fortune through investments ...
Audit Commission reveals highest ever levels of council fraud detection
October 22nd, 2014
Nearly £200M of fraud has been detected by English councils in 2013/14 – the highest amount for a generation and ten times the 1990 figure, the Audit Commission has revealed. In its latest – and last – report on ...
