Financial crimes

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.

The fraud that brought down tiny Commerzialbank Mattersburg im Burgenland AG raises questions for financial regulators and auditors that have uncomfortable echoes of the Wirecard AG debacle in neighboring Germany.

With the recent economic slowdown, companies are under increased pressure to show stability, or even growth, and paint a rosy picture for investors.

PPC Ltd., South Africa’s largest cement maker, plunged deeper into crisis after reporting accounting errors and delaying the release of full-year earnings for a second time.

Mark Frissora will return nearly $2 million in incentive-based compensation to settle a U.S. regulator’s claims that he played a key role in causing the now-bankrupt car-rental company to file inaccurate financial statements in 2013.

Reaching across the Isle; room disservice; game of tag; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Former Wirecard AG executive Jan Marsalek was added to Interpol’s red notice list, sparking a worldwide manhunt for one of the executives allegedly at the center of a multibillion-euro accounting scandal at the fintech company.

A man from St. Simons Island, Georgia, has been indicted for threatening to use a pipe bomb on an Internal Revenue Service building in New York.

New York is seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association as the state attorney general accused the gun rights group and its current and former senior officials of engaging in a massive fraud against donors.

Uncivil behavior; my client did it; 15 worthless payments; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service has named James Lee as its new chief of the Criminal Investigation unit, starting Oct. 1.