Financial crimes

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.

Ernst & Young is sending letters to clients admitting it failed to uncover fraud at the payment company sooner.

The COVID-19 pandemic is encouraging various forms of fraud, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Contemptuous; fashion misstatements; handwritten document; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

COVID-19 has created new challenges and a remote work environment that heightens the risk of fraud at public companies.

Leniency in cancer case; rehab rip-off; repayment unlikely; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Germany’s blame game over Wirecard AG’s collapse is focusing on the question of why authorities failed to take a harder look at the payments company before it became the country’s biggest accounting scandal in living memory.

Philly fraud; under development; ran but couldn’t hide; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The matter hinges largely on whether Smith was actually the beneficial owner of Caribbean entities that received proceeds from his company’s first private equity fund, according to people familiar with the case.

Credit Suisse Group AG faces a criminal probe amid suspicions it helped more than 2,600 clients to hide money in Swiss accounts, Belgian prosecutors said.

All in the family; unhappy motoring; youth movement; and other highlights of recent tax cases.