When journalist Ben Grubb, employed by Fairfax Media, one of Australia's two dominant print media chains, attended a conference about on-line security and received evidence of the ease with which social media information could be obtained despit...
Business Crime: Suburban Propane warns of cheque fraud
Suburban Propane of Whippany, New Jersey, USA has issued a warning notice about a fraud in which victims receive a fake cheque bearing the company's name.
Business Crime: Receivers to distribute more than USD700 recovered from ponzi-scheme operators
Any fraudster in the USA faces prosecution by state or federal law enforcement - but play in the corporate or financial world and regulators of one sort or another pounce as well. That's what Paul Greenwood’s and Stephen Walsh found when the Com...
BizLawCentral: World Money Laundering Report Volume 10 Number 2 published
World Money Laundering Report Volume 10 Number 2 is published 21 April 2011 Available for free download (registered users - free registration) from www.wmlro.com. In this issue:
BizLawCentral: contempt order sought against lawyer for Andersening millions of documents
California's Attorney General Kamala Harris has applied to a court in Sacramento for an order finding lawyer Roni Deutch (yes, the spelling is accurate, if not actually correct) in contempt for shredding "millions of documents" despite...
Stuart Ariff is a name to remember: he ran an insolvency firm in Australia specialising in administrations. Or that's what it said in the marketi...
Sanctions: US increases pressure on Libya
On 8 April 2011, the US Department of the Treasury increased its economic sanctions pressure on the Libyan regime by adding senior government off...
Business Crime: copper scavenging granny crashes entire country's internet
All crime should be viewed with seriousness. But sometimes a story comes along that is so funny on so many levels that it is impossible not to la...
Corruption: another death at the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission
When Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission officers began an investigation into allegations of widespread corruption amongst customs officers, man...
Business Crime: Surface tension in publisher's accounts department
Conde Nast's accounts department is very busy. When major supplier wrote asking them to change the details of the account they send payments to,...
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