French regulators probe former Vivendi chief Messier
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Former Vivendi Universal chief executive Jean-Marie Messier was questioned by the French financial markets regulator over alleged embezzlement in 2001 and 2002.
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French business tycoon Francois Pinault, targeted in complex civil action over the collapse of California insurance company Executive Life, was questioned here by a US lawyer under the supervision of a French judge.
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Vivendi Universal and its former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier have each been fined 1m euros ($1.3m; Â£690,000) by French regulators.
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The German and French financial  watchdogs said on Thursday they were looking into recent  trading by U.S. financial services group Citigroup C.N in  European government bond and derivative markets.
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French regulators fined Vivendi Universal  EAUG.PA and former Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marie Messier  1 million euros ($1.34 million) each on Tuesday after a probe  into allegations that they misled investors when a costly media  acquisition spree went wrong.
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Prosecutors have been given a report by financial investigators which sharply criticises Vivendi Universal's accounting practices under former CEO Jean-Marie Messiere, La Tribune reported on Wednesday.
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France's stock market regulator has filed complaints against Vivendi Universal SA and its two highest executives as part of an investigation into convertible bonds that the French company issued three years ago, Vivendi said Tuesday.
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Immucor Inc. said president and chief executive are under criminal investigation in Italy for alleged improper payments to a doctor, the maker of blood-testing equipment said Tuesday.
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The man French authorities were questioning was identified as Moussa Bakir, a broker at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©raleâs futures brokerage unit.
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French actor Gerard Depardieu is to be questioned by police investigating fraud claims against a fugitive tycoon.
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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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A second trader suspected of involvement in the multi-billion dollar losses at Societe Generale bank was taken Saturday for questioning by judges.
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BaFin, the German financial market regulator, has asked prosecutors to probe US banking giant Citigroup over possible market manipulation in the eurozone government bond futures market, BaFin chief said in a newspaper interview.
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Financial police in Paris were to question a trader who cost Franceâs SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale more than $7 billion, judicial officials said.
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The chief executive of DHL-owner Deutsche Post is being quizzed in a probe into an alleged fraud.
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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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France's stock market regulator AMF  files complaints against  Vivendi and two of its top executives as it investigates a bond sale.