Financial crimes

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.

Luke Johnson should have read his own aide-memoire. A month after the Patisserie Holdings Plc chairman published an advice column on spotting fraud, his finance chief has been arrested in an accounting scandal that threatened to shut the cake baker’s 200-plus stores.

Patisserie Holdings Plc finance chief Chris Marsh was arrested as U.K. fraud prosecutors opened a probe into an accounting scandal that threatens to shutter the cake baker’s 200-plus stores.

Preparer for illegal aliens pleads; wheat tricks; Ace goes down; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Testifying at the accounting fraud trial of two former executives, the U.K. retailer's chief talked of his genuine shock when he was first shown a report that described howthe company had overstated income by 246 million pounds ($326 million).

Text message recipients were told there was impending, unspecified bad news coming before the accounting scandal unfolded.

U.K. cake baker Patisserie Holdings Plc suspended its chief financial officer after uncovering “significant, and potentially fraudulent, accounting irregularities” and a demand for more than a million pounds in back taxes.

A dispensary owner becomes the first person sentenced for marijuana-related tax crimes.

Michael “the Situation” Sorrentino, star of the MTV reality series “Jersey Shore” was sentenced to eight months in prison Friday for violating federal tax laws, while his brother Marc received a 24-month sentence.

The bank was allegedly being used to launder billions of dollars in dirty money through its Estonian unit.

The troubled bed retailer plans to close up to 700 stores.