French Court Convicts Mitterrand Son of Tax Fraud
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A French court Wednesday found the eldest son of former French President Francois Mitterrand guilty of tax fraud and sentenced him to a suspended 30-month prison sentence.
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A former German politician is convicted and fined for using Volkswagen money illegally.
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The actor was convicted on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns or to pay taxes. He faces up to three years in prison.
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A U.S. jury on Monday found a former  Credit Suisse Group  investment banker guilty of  insider trading and conspiracy.
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A French court Wednesday convicted five former inmates from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of having links to terrorist groups, while acquitting a sixth man.
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A French court convicted dozens of people on Friday in a baby-trafficking case involving the sale of nearly two dozen Bulgarian infants over two years.
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A court on Friday convicted a man who tried to shoot French President Jacques Chirac during a national Bastille Day parade in 2002 and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
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Further fooling of the international art market by a brilliant fraudster was revealed yesterday at a court hearing to sentence his 84-year-old father
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A young trader blamed for losses that cost France's Societe Generale more than $7 billion hacked computers and used "several techniques of fraud," the bank said Sunday, as judicial officials said the man would remain in custody a further 24 hours.
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PARIS, Dec 14 (IPS) - A suspended prison sentence handed out to former  French prime minister Alain Juppe is one of several corruption  cases plaguing French politics and business.
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A Paris court sent French trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars Friday, while the investigation into billions of euros (dollars) of losses he allegedly caused for bank Societe Generale took a new twist with a second employee taken into custody.
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He committed the biggest individual fraud in history but France is lauding the 'quiet and fragile' JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel as a national hero
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A trial begins in Paris over the late President Francois Mitterrand's  wiretapping of his opponents in the 1980s.
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A German tax official who stole more  than $230,000 from the state by inventing taxpayers and  claiming money owed to them has been handed jailed for three  years and three months, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Societe Generale said Thursday that a single trader was responsible for a massive 4.9 billion euro (7.15 billion dollar) fraud at the French banking giant.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife win damages over a photo used in a Ryanair advert.
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A French court gives a five-year suspended jail term to ex-mercenary Bob Denard for a Comoros coup plot.