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Ex-Millennium Fund Manager Gets Four Years in Prison
June 24th, 2014
Former Millennium Global Investments portfolio manager Michael Balboa was sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding investors by inflating the value of Nigerian sovereign debt by $80 million. Balboa, convicted in December in a retrial in Manhattan federal ...
The Case of the Missing White-Collar Criminal
June 23rd, 2014
The senior executives who played leading roles in the 2008 financial crisis can breathe a sigh of relief: If any committed crimes, the statute of limitations will run out for most of them this year. It’s safe to say ...
Hedge-Fund Hack Part of Bigger Siege: Cyber-Experts
June 23rd, 2014
The attack on a U.S. hedge fund’s network, which a cybersecurity contractor said last week disrupted the firm’s high-speed trading and stole its data, is but one among many. That is the assessment of more than a half-dozen computer ...
Philippines Arrests Ex-President Estrada’s Son Over Fund Scandal
June 23rd, 2014
Philippine authorities arrested a son of former President Joseph Estrada after a court found sufficient evidence to try him on charges of stealing at least 183.8 million pesos ($4.2 million) of development funds. Senator Jinggoy Estrada handed himself in ...
Qatar Rejects Tax Exemption For Foreign Investors
June 23rd, 2014
Qatar’s Advisory Council has rejected a proposal to exempt foreign individuals and institutional investors from capital gains and income tax on domestic stock market investments. The proposal, which was approved by the State Cabinet and the Financial and Economic ...
UBS Belgium Chief Charged in Multibillion-Euro Tax Probe
June 20th, 2014
Marcel Bruehwiler, chief executive of UBS AG’s (UBSN) Belgium unit, was charged in Brussels as part of a probe into a multibillion-euro tax fraud, accelerating the latest tax-evasion inquiry facing the Swiss bank. Prosecutors said the investigation deals with ...
Danske Defeat on Risk Weights Shows Regulatory Supremacy
June 20th, 2014
As regulators across Europe and the U.S. show signs of caving in to bank industry warnings that new rules risk hurting the economy, Denmark’s watchdog has just won a milestone battle against the nation’s biggest bank. Danske Bank A/S ...
Japan not regulating bitcoin, for the moment
June 20th, 2014
Japan’s leading Liberal Democratic Party said it decided against regulating bitcoin for the time being, after the collapse of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox prompted them to consider more scrutiny of the virtual currency. Mt. Gox, once the world’s ...
ACCA welcomes new rules against money laundering and terrorist finacing
June 20th, 2014
The keywords in fighting money laundering and terrorist financing throughout Europe and worldwide are transparency and consistency between EU rules and the international approach, says global accountancy body In February 2013, the European Commission unveiled a package incorporating new ...
Utah Court Imposes over $44 Million in Sanctions for Commodity Pool Fraud and Misappropriation
June 20th, 2014
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained a federal court Order requiring Defendants Robert J. Andres of Houston, Texas, his company, Winsome Investment Trust (Winsome), Robert L. Holloway of San Diego, California, and his company US Ventures LC ...
