Banker sought in $400 mln fraud caught after 5 years
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"We were seeking him for five years, together with the FBI"  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. via MSN Money
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A former midlevel Dynegy executive was resentenced to six years in prison for his role in a fraudulent accounting scheme.
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A banker in Pakistan is charged with insider trading in the US involving information about the sale of energy firm TXU Corp.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- A Sydney man was imprisoned for more than five years Monday for duping people into sending him millions of dollars in a global Internet ruse known as the Nigerian scam.
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The leader of an identity theft ring that drained data from a major retailer gets five years in prison.
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BELFAST, Dec. 21 -- Thieves took hostage the families of two top bankers and forced the officials to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank&#39;s main office, authorities said Tuesday.
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EDMONTON (CP) - A bank manager who concealed a lifestyle of women, luxury homes and fast cars behind a mild-mannered exterior pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding his employer of more than &#36;16 million.
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A former junior-level investment  banker at Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.  pleaded guilty on Friday  to insider trading after providing tips about upcoming mergers  as part of a scheme that generated millions of dollars of  profit.
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An Australian 419 fraudster who conned AU$5m from his victims was today jailed for four years on 10 counts of fraud and one of perverting the course of justice by the NSW District Court theage.com.au reports.
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When Australian property developer Victor Ollis checked his bank account, he couldn't believe his luck. A technical error meant that a total of A$11m (Â£4.5m) had mistakenly poured into his account and he went on a spending spree.
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BELFAST -- In one of the world's biggest robberies, thieves took the families of two top bankers hostage and forced the bosses to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank's main office, authorities said yesterday.
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Business & money: JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel admits hiding his activities but accuses bank colleagues of trading beyond their limits
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Identify fraud has risen by 400 percent in the last 5 years but the majority of Britons would not know who to contact.
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A Sydney man was imprisoned for more than five years Monday for duping people into sending him millions of dollars in a global Internet ruse known as the Nigerian scam.
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The French bank SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said that it had uncovered âan exceptional fraudâ by a trader that would cost it about $7.1 billion.
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An indicted businessman who poured thousands of dollars into the campaigns of Barack Obama and other politicians was jailed Monday after prosecutors disclosed he received $3.5 million from an Iraqi billionaire while claiming to be broke.
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When Michelle Brown, a corporate  banker outside of Los Angeles, filled out paperwork for an  apartment rental, little did she realize that financial details  offered to a landlord would lead to identity theft that plagued  five years of her life.