Carrefour China in bribes probe
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Workers at French supermarket chain Carrefour are being probed by Chinese authorities on suspicion of bribery.
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SINGAPORE : China Aviation Oil has confirmed it is being probed by the Commercial Affairs Department for problems at the company. On Friday, the white-collar crime buster
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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have arrested or reprimanded more than 750 officials in recent months in connection with billions of dollars in financial irregularities ranging from unpaid taxes to embezzlement, according to a report made public yesterday.
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French authorities are investigating the business practices of Adecco SA, the world's largest temporary staffing company, claiming it may have violated French and European Union rules on competition, the company said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK -- Congressional investigators examining &quot;a semitrailer truck load&quot; of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion for the UN oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press.
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An 11bn euro bond trade by US bank Citigroup in August 2004 is being investigated by German prosecutors.
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French companies were counting some US$5 billion in spoils after French President Jacques Chirac used an official visit to China to boost economic ties in a bid to prevent France from being left behind in the ...
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NEW YORK - Congressional investigators examining "a semitrailer truck load" of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion for the U.N. oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press...
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Citigroup Inc. is under investigation by German financial regulators for possibly manipulating euro-zone bond markets, the government said Wednesday.
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The boss of Italian energy firm Eni, Paolo Scaroni, is under investigation as part of a police probe.
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal  Arroyo ordered an inquiry on Thursday into allegations of  government kickbacks in a deal with China's ZTE Corp, in which  her husband's name has figured.
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Carrefour, the European retailer, posted a 3.3 percent rise in profit for 2006, with a weaker performance in its home market in France dampening robust growth elsewhere. The company said net profit was 1.86 billion euros ($2.44 billion), compared with 1.8 billion euros in 2005. Sales, which Carrefour reported in January, rose 3.4 percent, to 3.26 billion euros. The earnings report came the day after the chairman of Carrefourâs supervisory board, Luc Vandevelde, resigned in a shake-up.
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A corruption probe that brought down Shanghai's top leader is progressing further and others might be implicated, a Communist Party anti-graft official said Tuesday.
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French companies and farmers have reeled in deals reportedly worth up to five billion euros (dollars) in China during a state visit to the country by President Jacques Chirac, but executives were said to be ...
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China is to review tens of thousands of drug licences as part of an investigation into a corruption scandal.
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French bank Societe Generale , at the centre of a huge trading scandal, began investigating trades executed by junior trader Jerome Kerviel months before his unauthorized activities were exposed in January, the Financial Times reported.
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French companies and farmers have reeled in deals reportedly worth up to five billion euros (dollars) in China during a state visit to the country by President Jacques Chirac, but executives were said to be disappointed that bigger business was not won.