Financial crimes

The news comes exactly a year after the disclosure of accounting irregularities and the resignation of its CEO threw the company into crisis.

The 2014 scandal prompted a boardroom house-cleaning and an overhaul of the U.K. grocer’s supplier relations.

Michael Lynch, the former chief executive officer of Autonomy Corp., stepped down Friday as an adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May after he was charged with fraud by the U.S.

The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program has closed and there are new, tougher procedures in place.

Fish tales; from the general to the illegal; dinged; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Sunset for a tax scheme; $4,000 in phony refunds per return; aging badly; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The commodity-trading firm is being investigated by three Singaporean agencies more than three years after a whistle-blower questioned the company’s accounting.

The Nissan chairman was arrested in Japan for alleged financial violations and faces removal from his job.

Walls of straw; fuel for fraud; silver and gold and evasion; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Samsung Group’s biotechnology unit is facing a potential criminal investigation and delisting after South Korea’s financial regulator said that the company “intentionally” violated accounting rules surrounding an initial public offering.

Technology is helping special agents root out tax fraud and evasion, despite a declining workforce.

Info direct from an IRS site; $15 million in phony refunds; school’s out; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The retailer provided South African officers with information about transactions involving more former executives who may have contributed to its accounting crisis.

Ex-IRS agent gets four years; Select sentence; ticket to jail; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A study suggests that a background in audit can be a double-edged sword in the C-suite.

About one-quarter of perpetrators of financial reporting misconduct experience a net benefit, even after getting caught.

Escorted to prison; going to Disneyland; FATCA conviction; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A prosecutor in a high-profile French tax case questioned why UBS Group AG systematically destroyed handwritten notebooks detailing the movement of French clients’ funds to surrounding lower-tax countries.

Speedy time; embezzling from the dead; thousands in gold coins; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Sacha Romanovitch will not stand for re-election for a second term and will step down after a successor is appointed before the end of this year.