The USA's Securities and Exchange Commission has issued proceedings against more than a dozen penny stock promoters and their companies on allegations that they took part in "illicit kickback schemes to manipulate the volume and price of mi...
BizLawCentral: World Money Laundering Report Vol 9 No 2 published today
Vortex Centrum Ltd announces the publication today of World Money Laundering Report Vol 9 No 4.In this issue:
Corruption: crane company owner jailed for bribing safety officer
50 year old Michael SACKARIS, described as the "de facto owner"of Nu-Way Crane Service, has been jailed for two years. From 2002 -2007 he bribed a local government safety officer to induce him to issue safety certificates - in many cas...
BizLawCentral : proposed reform of supervision of Australian insolvencies
A report by an Australian Senate committee says that ASIC, which is in the process of taking over some market supervision functions, is "overburdened" and should be stripped of its supervision of insolvency practitioners and their indu...
Business crime: fake viagra, iPhones and branded jewellery among UK Customs' seizures
Whether or not one approves of state resources being used to enforce private intellectual property rights, sometimes the issue is as important for the state as it is for the IP owners.
BankingInsuranceSecurities.Com, the leading website for news and information in the financial services sector has today added a new section to he...
Business crime: USA's SEC charges accounting staff with embezzlement of USD30 million
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two former senior accounting professionals at a Milwaukee-based headphone manufacturer with ac...
Insolvency: ASIC winds up "fundraising arm" of Gold Coast developer
The Supreme Court of Queensland, on the application of The Australian Securities and Investment Commission, has wound up four companies: Supersaf...
Insolvency: former liquidator charged with theft of funds from estate
Stuart Ariff, a former liquidator in Australia, has been charged with multiple offences of stealing funds from the estate of a company he was liq...
Sanctions: US approves transfer of anti-surveillance software to Iran
In a little noticed action, the USA has issued a licence to a Californian company to export its products to Iran. Surprising in itself, it's the...
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