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A US Federal Court in Florida has ordered the payment of a penalty of more than USD17 million due to alleged fraud by a company and its officers. But there is one vital point: this was not a criminal trial and so no "crime" is alleged....
Market Abuse: Sydney Company Director appears on market manipulation charges
Mr Hoong Kee Tang, a former director of Wintech Group Limited, which is in administration, has been arrested and charged with market manipulation and making false or misleading statements in documents submitted to The Australian Securities and I...
AML/CFT: UK countdown for Bribery Act to come into force
The UK's Bribery Act 2010 comes into force in less than a month. Time to panic?
Fraud: another 419.
Oh, yippee. Someone wants to pay us USD10 million to help them in a money laundering scheme. And yet, he wants us to give him some background on us which, given that he doesn't even know if we are a sir or a madam demonstrates that, despite the...
Doing Business In.. The Internet: Twitter ordered to hand over account info
In the north-east of England, in a small town called South Shields, a revolution of sorts has begun. The South Tyneside Council (STC), the local authority for the district that used to be part of County Durham before the fad for unitary authorit...
The (no longer Royal) Hong Kong Jockey Club's reputation continues to take a battering as the Independent Commisssion Against Corruption (ICAC) l...
Taxation: UK arrests in GBP20m tobacco fraud
HM Revenue and Customs have arrested five people accused of orchestrating a tobacco fraud that is estimated to have resulted in GBP20 million in...
Governance: UK compulsorily winds up fundraising company for misleading sales script
The UK's Insolvency Service has obtained an order winding up Needy Children International Foundation Limited, a charity fundraising company, with...
The Risk Professional: California's gangland killings
California's Governor, Kamala Harris, is justifiably proud (on behalf of her state, its former governor and herself) of the fact that the murder...
IP: Aus police raise question over re-use of photos from Facebook
When journalist Ben Grubb, employed by Fairfax Media, one of Australia's two dominant print media chains, attended a conference about on-line sec...
