Banker sought in $400 mln fraud caught after 5 years
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The five-year getaway of a banker whose U.S. fund lost $400 million when he bet against the Internet stockmarket bubble in the late 1990s ended on Friday when he was caught in Austria, police said on Monday.
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Federal prosecutors contend a businessman known for pledging money to help track down criminals has pocketed $3.2 million of income over the past several years while not paying federal taxes since 2000.
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A pensioner is sentenced to five years in prison for masterminding a Â£2.4m benefits scam
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The French bank said that the fraud had been committed by a trader in charge of hedging on European index futures.
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Documents show that the bank had knowledge of fraud allegations and continued to do business with companies it knew had been accused of telemarketing crimes.
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The French financial trader at the centre of a massive fraud case gambled around 50bn euros, his employer says.
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Joseph P. Collins, Refcoâs former outside lawyer, was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering and with filing false documents with regulators.
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Â· Company accused of circumventing bribery lawÂ·  Firm accuses ex-manager of taking kickbacks
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Detectives in Northern Ireland are investigating a bank theft that may be in excess of 20 million pounds ($38.5 million), the police said.
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A man who served prison time for fraud admitted Wednesday that he returned to his old ways after his release, bilking more than 900 investors Â including Hurricane Katrina victims Â out of $8 million.
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Business & money: Criminal investigation into possible fraud and insider trading involves some of world's largest banks
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U.S. prosecutors charged a former Pakistani banker with securities fraud on Tuesday, saying he made nearly $8 million in illegal profits after getting insider information on pending merger deals from a former Credit Suisse investment banker.
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An Australian man whose international email scam stripped A$5 million ($5.48 million) from his victims has been jailed in a continuing global war against Nigerian internet frauds.
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AIG, the world's largest insurer,  is the target of a criminal investigation, accused of helping a client commit fraud.
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German police Thursday arrested five suspects and are seeking another in a phishing scam that took Postbank customers to the tune of 30,000 ($40,184).
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A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc  analyst was sentenced to nearly five years in prison on Thursday for leading an insider-trading ring that netted more than $6 million in illegal profits.
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A federal grand jury in Baltimore has indicted 39 people in an international money laundering scheme using an informal currency transfer system known as hawala, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.