MEP 'facing prison' in fraud case
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An MEP for South East England convicted of 21 charges of benefit fraud is being sentenced later.
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Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader alleged to have cost his bank billions of euros, is police custody, reports say.
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Royal Mail faces an EU investigation into whether funding received was illegal under laws governing state aid.
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A Liverpool businessman has been given a suspended prison sentence for  faking degree certificates.
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A German tax official who stole more than $230,000 (114,950 pounds) 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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(AGI) - Turin, Italy, November 26 Ãâ For judge Giuseppe Casalbore, who issued the sentence after four hours of cabinet, there was a fraud just like the attempt to change the outcome of matches since &#39;94.
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Disgraced former Irish Foreign Minister Ray Burke has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to filing false tax returns.
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A European judge's comments raise the prospect of EU students getting student loans in the UK.
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A senior civil servant was jailed for 18 months today after cheating London Underground's fare refund scheme
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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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But behind the scenes, an Anglo-French row was under way, after a British MEP spilled the beans on the murky past of one of President Chirac's political allies.
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A man is expected to appear in court in Belfast later charged in connection with dissident republican activity.
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A man who admitted making a hoax call which led to a Â£45,000 air and sea search is imprisoned.
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A financial adviser who conned miners out of hundreds of thousands of pounds while running their pension fund is jailed.
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A CLOSE political ally and business associate of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was jailed for nine years yesterday for colluding with the Mafia.
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A fresh row is threatening to mar the first day in office of the new European Commission on Monday. France&#39;s commissioner Jacques Barrot is under fire for failing to disclose a previous conviction for embezzlement.
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THE incoming president of the European commission is facing the wrath of the European parliament for the second time in a row over a criminal conviction of Jacques Barrot, his French commissioner.