Financial crimes

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.

Father-daughter dance; long-distance relationships; this auction is closed; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Under Armour Inc. said a pair of top executives, including founder Kevin Plank, has been named in a federal probe of the company’s accounting, sending shares of the athleticwear maker down.

Workin’ on the highway; school’s out; paycheck re-route; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was fired for kneeling on the neck of George Floyd until he died, sparking worldwide protests, has been charged with multiple counts of felony tax evasion over five years.

Former Wirecard AG Chief Executive Officer Markus Braun and two other former officials were arrested as prosecutors said the company knew about massive losses as early as 2015.

Serious misStep; the taxman goeth; extra checks, please; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A group of five national tax authorities has been working together for the past two years on cooperating in the fight against tax crimes, with one man pleading guilty last week in Germany to fraud charges involving cryptocurrency.

Sentence stayed; stealing on multiple levels; the loot you took; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Yet another fictional company; more tooth and justice; unsafe bets; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Luckin Coffee Inc.’s board will require Chairman Charles Zhengyao Lu to resign, adding to the fallout from an accounting scandal that has battered the onetime market darling.