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Money-laundering suspect ‘held a Barclays account’ |
| Published on June 3, 2013 |
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| Barclays has been dragged into an international money-laundering inquiry after US prosecutors discovered that Arthur Budovsky, the founder of digital currency exchange Liberty Reserve, held an account with the British bank. |
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Online Currency Exchange Accused of Laundering $6 Billion |
| Published on May 30, 2013 |
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| The operators of a global currency exchange ran a $6 billion money-laundering operation online, a central hub for criminals trafficking in everything from stolen identities to child pornography, federal prosecutors in New York said on Tuesday. |
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Ex-KPMG Partner to Admit Fraud |
| Published on May 30, 2013 |
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| A former partner at the accounting firm KPMG agreed on Tuesday to plead guilty to a securities fraud charge for providing insider information to a friend who plied him in return with cash bribes, a Rolex watch and other luxury items. |
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Former CIA Director Petraeus Takes Job At Midtown Investment Firm |
| Published on May 30, 2013 |
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| Former CIA director and retired Army general David Petraeus is taking a new job with a Midtown-based investment firm. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Company has announced Petraeus will be chairman of its newly created Global Institute. |
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Ex-President of Guatemala Faces Judge in Manhattan |
| Published on May 30, 2013 |
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| The former president, Alfonso Portillo,(61) who was extradited to the United States last week in a money laundering case pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in a New York courtroom. |
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Former Ex-Peruvian president accused of working with Holocaust survivor to launder money |
| Published on May 22, 2013 |
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| Alejandro Toledo is suspected of fraudulently buying a $4 million house in Lima using money from his mother-in-law, 86-year-old Holocaust survivor Eva Fernenburg. |
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Swiss court grants SNC special status in fraud case against former executive |
| Published on May 22, 2013 |
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| A panel of Swiss judges has granted special intervenor status to SNC-Lavalin in the prosecution of a former senior SNC executive after the Montreal-based engineering giant alleged that the executive, Riadh Ben Aissa, defrauded the company of $50-million (U.S.). |
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Craig Thomson faces 19 new charges including 15 counts of fraud |
| Published on May 22, 2013 |
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| Nineteen new charges have been laid against independent MP Craig Thomson after he appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court today. |
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Miami Workers Bribed, and Shortchanged, Venezuelan Banker, U.S. Says |
| Published on May 22, 2013 |
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| First came the hefty kickbacks that employees at a Miami brokerage office pledged to pay María de los Angeles González, a Venezuelan banking official, for steering millions of dollars of business their way — which she did, federal prosecutors contend. |
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UK: HMRC to miss tax credit fraud target, says PAC |
| Published on May 22, 2013 |
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| The UK tax authority's failure to hit a target of reducing tax credit fraud and error has "cost the taxpayer dear", according to a committee of MPs. |
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