News about fraud

EU finance ministers tackle tax-fraud European Union finance ministers tackle tax fraud and money-laundering as they wrap up two days of talks on Saturday.
13 April 2013 12:37
Blow for Hollande as ex-minister charged in tax fraud probe 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 April 2013 15:51
London court orders Ablyazov's accomplices to pay over $1.5 billion to BTA London's High Court has made more rulings in favor of BTA Bank in the process against Ablyazov and his accomplices.
26 March 2013 20:49
Khrapunov does not preclude coming back to Kazakhstan "Kazakhstan is the country that has brought me up and this connection is very strong," Khrapunov.
26 February 2013 12:36
China police chief 'who owns hundreds of houses' sacked 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 February 2013 14:47
Leila Khrapunova ready to cooperate with Geneva prosecutors 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 December 2012 15:45
AU Optronics executive guilty in LCD price-fixing case 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 December 2012 12:08
London's High Court unfroze assets of Alliance Bank former managers 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 December 2012 13:01
Ghana opposition claims fraud in tight presidential vote Ghana's main opposition party on Sunday alleged fraud in the country's tight presidential election, claiming it had evidence that its candidate had won the vote even before official results were declared.
11 December 2012 10:48
Romanian millionaire hopes for upset in Sunday polls He's under investigation for fraud and on trial for blackmail, but populist millionaire Dan Diaconescu drives a white Rolls Royce and promises to be a reforming figure whose goal is to "uproot the newly rich who have plundered Romania".
07 December 2012 14:33
Berlusconi sentenced to prison for tax fraud Italy's former prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi was briefly sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud connected to his Mediaset empire Friday.
27 October 2012 11:13
US sues Wells Fargo for mortgage fraud The US filed suit Tuesday against US banking giant Wells Fargo, alleging mortgage fraud that cost the government hundreds of million of dollars after the holders of the home loans defaulted.
11 October 2012 15:57
Madoff scam went back further than thought: US Bernard Madoff's multi-billion dollar Wall Street fraud started in the early 1970s, at least two decades earlier than previously thought.
02 October 2012 16:41
Most scientific paper retractions due to misconduct: study When a biomedical study is retracted, most of the time it is because of misconduct rather than error, a report published Monday said.
02 October 2012 15:22
New York sues JPMorgan over mortgage securities The state of New York filed suit against JPMorgan Chase and its subsidiary JPMorgan Securities Monday over the allegedly fraudulent sales of mortgage-backed securities ahead of the US financial crisis.
02 October 2012 15:02
Fraudsters left 110 Kazakhstan students without Work and Travel 110 young people paid Katrin Work and Travel agency over $2,000 each but did not go to the U.S. for summer vacation.
23 July 2012 16:12
Businessman suspected of fraud against Kazakhstan pension fund in Canada Ontario Securities Commission filed quasi-charges to a businessman in alleged fraud involving Kazakhstan pension fund.
20 July 2012 18:18
U.S. court released Kazakhstan citizen accused of money laundering Kazakhstan citizen Aleksey Li, arrested in the United States for money laundering, has been released.
05 July 2012 16:11
Kazakhstan-born doctor accused of $3.5 million fraud in U.S. Kazakhstan-born Boris Sachakov has tried to cheat Medicare insurance fund in the United States.
15 June 2012 16:24
Kazakhstan students suspected of fraud may be apprehended at U.S. border Kazakhstan students suspected of tax return fraud in the U.S., will be apprehended at their first attempt to cross the U.S. border.
15 May 2012 20:26
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