Banks' Role Eyed in Parmalat Scandal -WSJ
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Investigators are closely scrutinizing  the role of major international banks in the meltdown of  Parmalat, the scandal-ridden dairy group based in Italy, the  Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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A &#36;5 billion bank account that never existed, a computer smashed with a hammer to hide phony records, a captain of Italian industry thrown behind bars. A year ago attention focused on the northern Italian city of Parma as what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dubbed "one of the largest and most brazen corporate financial frauds in history" began to unravel.
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U.S. and European banks including  Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are mulling  sales of parts of their businesses from branches to entire  units in a nod to crunch times ahead, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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LONDON, August 19 (New Ratings)  Parmalat Finanziaria SpA (PAF.FSE) announced today that the company has filed a lawsuit against Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), seeking approximately 250 million in claims plus interest from the financial service ...
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A preliminary court hearing into the collapse of food firm Parmalat, Italy's biggest ever corporate scandal, begins on Tuesday.
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Parmalat can be sued by shareholders in a suit involving the collapse of its predecessor,  a US judge rules.
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Bank of America Corp. said Friday it had filed for damages against former officials and auditors of collapsed dairy giant Parmalat at a preliminary hearing in Milan, as the bank attempts to avoid blame in the massive fraud scandal.
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Italian dairy giant Parmalat SPA owes nearly $26 billion to creditors including many big international banks, a judge ruled Friday in a decision that will affect who will become a shareholder in the reorganized ...
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The founder and CEO of Parmalat, the Italian dairy and juice giant that collapsed a year ago in a spectacular &#36;18 billion fraud case known as "Europe's Enron," apologized to investors Saturday and pledged to help prosecutors build their case.
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Italy&#39;s justice system began hearings into the Parmalat scandal which rocked the world&#39;s leading financial institutions, ruined tens of thousands of small savers and pushed Italian and EU regulators into imposing tougher rules on high finance.
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Italian-based Parmalat is suing its former auditors -- Grant Thornton International and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu -- for billions of dollars in damages. Parmalat blames its demise on the two companies&#39; mismanagement of its finances.
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Bank of America is prepared to take legal action against failed Italian food group Parmalat in the United States and Italy if its rights as a creditor are not respected, the bank's vice president Jaap Dutry ...
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Parmalat issues proceedings against its ex-auditors over their dealings with the insolvent group before its near collapse
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MILAN Ten months after the collapse of Parmalat, the Italian dairy and food giant, a preliminary hearing was held here on Tuesday to determine whether to indict 29 people and three companies in one of the country&#39;s biggest financial scandals.
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MILAN, Italy Oct. 5, 2004 - Two former auditors at Parmalat were ordered to stand trial for false accounting and market rigging under a fast-track procedure, the first indictments since the masssive fraud scandal at the Italian-based dairy giant.
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Federal prosecutors are looking for U.S. ties to French bank Societe Generale's  trading scandal, for example transactions that went through a U.S. broker, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Grant Thornton and Bank of America have filed motions in a New York court to remove a US injunction stopping them counter-suing insolvent Italian dairy group Parmalat, which has sued each for $10 billion.