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  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    UK property
    UK fraud agency opens investigation into alleged £140mn property scam

    Signature Group accused by SFO of using ‘much-loved local landmarks to lure investors’

    SFO signage outside its offices in London
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    London Capital & Finance
    London Capital & Finance ran ‘Ponzi’ scheme, court told

    Sums raised by investment firm allegedly spent on earrings, horses and shotguns

    A person holding a tablet showing the London Capital & Finance website above a table with a drink, glasses, phone and laptop
  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s legal woes come to a head in his hometown of New York

    A weighty judgment and impending criminal trial pile pressure on former president as his campaign swings into high gear

    Donald Trump
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Goldman Sachs Group
    Ex-Goldman analyst jailed for 22 months for insider trading

    Judge tells Mohammed Zina that his crime ‘struck at heart of financial markets’

    Mohammed Zina, former analyst at Goldman Sachs Group
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
    Ex-Freshfields lawyer convicted over tax fraud received €2mn severance pay

    ‘Magic circle’ firm will not seek to claw back money paid to former tax partner sentenced to 3½ years in jail

    Freshfields’ offices in Bishopsgate, London
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    Insider trading
    Ex-Clifford Chance lawyer acquitted in FCA insider trading trial

    Judge instructed jury to return verdicts of not guilty against Suhail Zina

    Financial Conduct Authority head offices
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Romance scams rise by over one-fifth in 2023

    Fake social media profiles lure victims into sending money

    A broken heart-shaped lollipop
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    The Insolvency Service
    Insolvency Service prosecutions halve despite UK Covid fraud

    Just 95 charges brought in England and Wales in year to March 2023, down from 174 in previous 12 months

  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    UK police seized £1.4bn of bitcoin from China investment fraud, court told

    One of the world’s largest seizures revealed during trial of woman accused of laundering cryptocurrency for her former employer

    The police in 2018 seized four separate devices containing more than 61,000 bitcoin from a safety deposit box and a property
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
    Freshfields’ former tax partner sentenced to 3½ years in jail

    Ulf Johannemann found guilty by Frankfurt court of aiding and abetting dividend tax fraud

    Freshfields’ offices in the City of London
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    BGC Partners Inc
    BGC settles lawsuit with ex-partner over alleged $35mn fraud

    New York-based group settles case that was due to go to trial in London

    New York skyline
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Law
    Woman accused of laundering bitcoin proceeds of £5bn fraud in London trial

    More than 128,000 investors in China between 2014 and 2017 had their funds stolen, prosecutors said

    A Bitcoin advertisement in Hong Kong
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
    Ex-Freshfields tax chief should be spared prison, his lawyer says

    Defence argues Ulf Johannemann should face a suspended jail term for his alleged role in a multiyear tax fraud

    Werner Gröschel, the presiding judge of the case at Frankfurt district court
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    US financial regulation
    AI heralds the next generation of financial scams

    Voice cloning is just one of the new tools in the tricksters’ armoury

  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    News in-depthUK banks
    UK banks prepare for deepfake fraud wave

    Experts warn that rapidly developing technology threatens to ‘put financial crime on steroids’

    Deepfakes and voice cloning are getting easier to generate, meaning scammers have the potential to target far more people and with a higher rate of success
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
    Prosecutors call for 5-year jail term for former Freshfields partner

    Ulf Johannemann’s flawed legal advice was instrumental in alleged €388mn tax fraud, Frankfurt court told

    Freshfields’ logo outside its London offices
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump denounces New York fraud case in courtroom speech

    Former US president addresses the court at conclusion of case that threatens his business empire

    Donald Trump in a Manhattan court
  • Sunday, 7 January, 2024
    Digital economy
    G20 push for faster payments risks weakening Russia sanctions, experts warn

    Speeding up digital systems makes them more vulnerable to criminal networks and money laundering

    A montage of a man in a suit holding an orb with a schematic drawing in the background
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    HM Revenue & Customs
    ‘Something that never leaves you’: Pension scam victims fear a new tax hit

    Schemes encouraged pension transfers and used money in risky investments

    Portrait of Jeremy Cornford
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    News in-depthPrivate equity
    ‘Stalinist show trial’: court brawl rattles buyout industry

    HIG and Audax attack each other over $900mn deal in rare legal battle between private equity peers

    A montage of the Mobileum logo and US bank notes
  • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
    Philippines
    Philippines emerges as centre of Asia online shopping scams

    Experts issue warning over country’s lack of digital literacy and cyber crime awareness

    A close-up photo of hands typing on a keyboard. The screen depicts binary numerals
  • Sunday, 24 December, 2023
    Fintech
    ‘A fiction’: the fall of a fintech star accused of ‘massive fraud’

    The SEC complaint alleges Tingo inflated its accounts with ‘billions of dollars of fictitious transactions’

    Dozy Mmobuosi allegedly inflated the profits of three companies by forging documents to swindle investors
  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    Push payment fraud victims to get most of their money back

    Customers can claim up to £415,000 from next October, says regulator

    A woman looks at a laptop screen, with a bank card in hand
  • Monday, 18 December, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to 4 years for fraud

    Truck start-up’s market value fell sharply after report claimed investors had been misled

    Trevor Milton arriving at the New York federal courthouse on Monday for his sentencing hearing
  • Monday, 18 December, 2023
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
    Ex-Freshfields partner on trial for tax fraud takes ‘full responsibility’ for errors

    Law firm’s former global head of tax tells court he ‘totally failed’ as a lawyer

    The ‘Fountain of Justice’ statue in Frankfurt, where the trial is taking place
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