Financial crimes

The Internal Revenue Service is advising taxpayers who received a Form 1099-G for unemployment benefits they never got to contact their state because their identity may have been stolen.

Criminal harvest; going informal; any way you slice it; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A second hedge-fund trader was named by Danish prosecutors as a defendant in a dividend tax scheme they say defrauded the Nordic country out of 9.6 billion kroner ($1.6 billion).

A former senior executive at Wirecard AG escaped from Austria to Belarus on a private aircraft last year with the help of a secret-service agent and a far-right politician.

Drug money; ghosts of a chance; skin games; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A member of Deutsche Bank AG’s supervisory board faced criticism from lawmakers and the bank itself for suggesting that Wirecard AG go after journalists that had written critical stories about the since-collapsed payments company.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division issued a warning Thursday about a new wave of COVID-19 scams tied to the latest round of stimulus payments, especially targeting taxpayers in the District of Columbia.

Smells fishy; getting the boot; quit the day job; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been launching enforcement actions against various types of financial fraud schemes, with improper revenue recognition seen as the most common type of fraud, according to a new analysis.

The U.K. arm of Deloitte got a record fine from Britain’s accounting watchdog in September. With the full judgment against the firm laid bare last week, you can see why.

Checking out; chairman of the hoard; unlucky Linda; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Sanjay Shah, who founded a London hedge fund that specialized in controversial Cum-Ex trades, was charged by Danish prosecutors in a 9.6 billion-krone ($1.6 billion) tax-fraud probe, according to a person familiar with the case.

The United Kingdom’s Financial Reporting Council issued a report Wednesday on its sanctions against Deloitte for audits of a British software company that was acquired by HP.

Ooo, the pain; off the market; a lower calling; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Criminal Investigation Division is in a nostalgic mood, releasing a retrospective this week of its top five cases of the year through its Twitter handle, @IRS_CI.

Devil’s in the details; the court date; smackdown; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Folded; they didn’t need to know; sentence guaranteed; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The company made up more than $300 million in fake retail sales.

Fraud is continuing to increase this year, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

The head of Germany’s accounting regulator faces scrutiny after telling a parliamentary committee that he traded Wirecard AG shares while his agency was reviewing the now bankrupt payment company’s external audits.