Financial crimes

Spreading the theft around; re-routed refunds; AIG loses, mostly; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Gone Pro’s; various ways to fraud; oxymoron; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Robert T. Brockman, a Houston software tycoon, was charged with using a web of Caribbean entities to hide $2 billion in income in what prosecutors called the largest U.S. tax case ever against an individual.

Troubled commodities trader GP Global Group has “accounting irregularities” in its books, according to the restructuring adviser hired to salvage the company’s assets.

Three defaults and you’re out; scheme of several years; misstep by misstep; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Smith will acknowledge wrongdoing to end a four-year U.S. tax investigation involving assets held in offshore tax havens.

Two senior executives at Botswana supermarket chain Choppies Enterprises Ltd. are suing former auditors PwC for 653 million rand ($40 million) for not signing off on the company’s 2018 accounts, which led to a share price collapse.

Lost Horizon; crimes of Misdemeanor; Strachans plea; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

General Electric Co. warned that it’s likely to face Securities and Exchange Commission allegations of accounting misdeeds, setting back CEO Larry Culp’s effort to put the company’s rocky past behind it.

German lawmakers have called it the greatest tax heist in history.

Elusive cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee was arrested in Spain for tax evasion in the U.S.

Robert T. Brockman was just putting the finishing touches on a new private equity fund when worrisome news arrived. Law enforcement agents had raided the home of a tax lawyer in Texas who had worked for him.

GotTime.com; $1,600 a return; whole lotta hooch; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Deductions for haircuts, consulting fee write-offs, a family estate that is treated as a business property and an aggressive refund claim could open President Donald Trump to legal risks once he’s out of office.

The commission filed settled actions against two public companies and two former executives for improper reporting of quarterly EPS.

A Panama sentencing; ‘subcontractor’ mess; fun with funds; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

KfW, Germany’s third-largest bank by assets, may drop Ernst & Young as auditor as EY continues to be plagued by its role in the country’s Wirecard accounting scandal.

Germany’s financial regulator is considering opening a probe into Grenke AG’s accounting practices, wading deeper into the controversy after criticism of its failure to unearth fraud at Wirecard AG.

Difficult and complex; $4,000 tax on $2 million; little horse sense; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The U.K.’s Financial Reporting Council sanctioned Deloitte and two of its former partners for their audits of the software company Autonomy prior to its acquisition by HP and levied a record penalty.