Financial crimes

Steinhoff International Holdings NV pushed back the dates for the publication of audited earnings for 2017 and 2018 after the findings of a forensic probe by PwC made the process more time consuming and complex.

Zapped; drug deals; doing the deduction shuffle; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The rental car company is demanding that ex-CEO Mark Frissora and other former senior managers return incentives they received.

Four-time loser; the thieving IRS; addresses and debit cards; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

CEO Markus Braun tried to put fraud allegations behind him as questions persisted after an external probe failed to resolve issues from potential criminal behavior.

Prosecutors recorded a phone call in which William Singer said his charity was being audited and the parents should tell the IRS their contributions were for needy children.

Wirecard AG surged the most in more than a decade after saying irregularities found in an external investigation into fraud allegations in Asia weren’t material.

Faced with a U.S. indictment, the British tech leader had a simple choice: Focus on the criminal trial—with a possible sentence of 20 years in prison—or fight a civil lawsuit first over accounting fraud.

The federal investigators who uncovered the scam probably got help from the accountants.

Two firms barred; very differently abled; pain in the neck; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service has been cracking down on tax-related ID theft, helping make 11 arrests and indict 15 individuals in recent weeks.

The retailer's former chief financial officer is working with authorities as they investigate questionable transactions.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV identified eight people, including former Chief Executive Officer Markus Jooste, as those allegedly behind questionable transactions that brought the global retailer to near-collapse.

For 20 years, the global retailer thrived off deal-making. Now, some of those transactions are back in the spotlight, and not in a good way.

Christo Wiese says the retailer’s overview of a forensic probe into the company’s accounting irregularities supports his claim against the company.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV plans to dig deeper into the accounting misdeeds that brought the retailing giant to its knees as it seeks to get to the bottom of some $7.4 billion in fictitious or improper deals.

This will hurt a bit; death and taxes; millions in income, decades of not filing; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Olympus Corp. lost a U.K. lawsuit that tried to block the pension of former head Michael Woodford after he blew the whistle on an alleged $1.7 billion accounting fraud and 13-year cover-up at the firm.

European Union finance ministers agreed to add 10 countries to a blacklist of alleged tax havens, including the United Arab Emirates and Bermuda, despite last-minute push-back by some EU nations.

The president's former campaign chairman won leniency from a federal judge who sent him to prison for less than four years, but next week he’ll be sentenced in a second case.