Financial crimes

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.

Top boss no more; wrong slide of the law; the run’s over; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Busted; ‘an undercover agent or anything;’ dastardly deeds; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

An income statement summarizes revenues and expenses and then reports profits. Isn’t that just like the Christmas letter that summarized all the year’s activities?

Island girls; five-year mission; nurse malpractitioner; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Wirecard AG’s former chief executive officer appeared in public for the first time since his July detention in connection with the collapse of the electronic payment company, but lawmakers hoping for insights from the disgraced manager were left disappointed.

Drug money; Phoenix descending; stepping down; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The press helps keep firms honest, according to a new academic paper.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit has been initiating fewer investigations of abusive tax return preparers this past year, while also recommending fewer prosecutions, and seeing fewer indictments and prison sentences this year.

What a POS; bad bet; too sick to go to prison; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

What a steel; there go the judge; children’s books; and other highlights of recent tax cases.