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Chinese state television put two foreign fraud investigators on display Tuesday as police announced they had been charged with illegally obtaining personal information.

• 27 августа 2013, 12:21

Six people appeared in US federal courts on Wednesday in connection with what American officials are calling one of the biggest international penny stock frauds ever investigated.

• 15 августа 2013, 19:08

The US government on Tuesday sued Bank of America for defrauding investors in the sale of $850 million in mortgage-backed securities ahead of the housing bust.

• 08 августа 2013, 10:42

Kazakhstan's ex-banker Mukhtar Ablyazov may be sentenced to 5 to 12 years in jail in Ukraine where he is accused of fraud.

• 05 августа 2013, 14:31

Italy's ex-leader Silvio Berlusconi has lost his final appeal against a tax fraud sentence in a ruling that jolted the political establishment on Friday but left the government in place for now.

• 02 августа 2013, 12:34

Italy's top court begins crucial hearings for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday that will decide whether to confirm a one-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from politics.

• 30 июля 2013, 16:44

A Moscow court on Thursday convicted Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky of tax evasion, provoking fresh outrage more than three years after his prison death.

• 12 июля 2013, 15:47

A US judge cut 10 years off the prison sentence of disgraced former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling on Friday after he spent years fighting his original 24-year jail term for fraud.

• 23 июня 2013, 13:11

Microsoft on Wednesday said it teamed with the FBI to disrupt armies of hacked computers used to commit more than a half-billion dollars in financial fraud around the world.

• 07 июня 2013, 10:49

France has drawn up a blacklist of 17 countries including Switzerland that do not help investigate foreign aid fraud, banning the use of their banks to help distribute development funds.

• 28 мая 2013, 16:13

Anwar Ibrahim said only fraud can stop his Malaysian opposition from scoring a historic election win as the rival sides launched a last-ditch campaign blitz Saturday on the eve of a tense vote.

• 05 мая 2013, 11:07

Great Britain's Serious Fraud Office started an official investigation over Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation.

• 26 апреля 2013, 13:36

European Union finance ministers tackle tax fraud and money-laundering as they wrap up two days of talks on Saturday.

• 13 апреля 2013, 12:37

France's ex-budget minister Jerome Cahuzac was charged Tuesday in a tax fraud probe after he admitted having a foreign bank account, dealing a fresh blow to President Francois Hollande's embattled government.

• 03 апреля 2013, 15:51

London's High Court has made more rulings in favor of BTA Bank in the process against Ablyazov and his accomplices.

• 26 марта 2013, 20:49

"Kazakhstan is the country that has brought me up and this connection is very strong," Khrapunov.

• 26 февраля 2013, 12:36

A Chinese police chief has been sacked after reports he owned hundreds of houses and a false identity card, state media said Wednesday in the latest scandal to fuel public outrage over corruption.

• 06 февраля 2013, 14:47

Former Almaty Mayor's wife said she was ready to cooperate with Geneva prosecutors who initiated an investigation against the Khrapunovs family in suspicion of money laundering.

• 28 декабря 2012, 15:45

A US jury on Tuesday found a former senior manager at Taiwan-based AU Optronics Corp. guilty of taking part in a global scheme to rig prices of liquid crystal display screens.

• 19 декабря 2012, 12:08

London's High Court canceled the ruling on blocking the assets towards former chairman of Alliance Bank Margulan Seisembayev, who is one of the defendants on the lawsuit on fraud for $1.1 billion.

• 17 декабря 2012, 13:01