US businessman gets 15 years in Dubai fraud case
A Dubai court has convicted an American businessman for fraud and sentenced him to 15 years' imprisonment after a nearly five-year legal battle that ...
French minister resigns in face of tax-fraud probe
France's budget minister, ensnared in a ballooning scandal over suspected tax fraud and money laundering, on Tuesday became the first resignation in ...
Tax-fraud probe centering on French minister grows
Paris prosecutors have opened a judicial investigation into alleged laundering of money gained through tax fraud in a case centering on France's ...
5 convicted of inventing movie to hide tax fraud
The clue was in the title. In some ways "A Landscape of Lies" was a typical indie film, with a tiny budget, a B-list cast and an award from an ...
UK fraud office launches inquiry in Autonomy case
Britain's Serious Fraud Office has launched an internal inquiry to determine if there is a conflict of interest in its use of software linked to a ...
Israel police probe alleged lawmaker voter fraud
Israeli police are investigating allegations that lawmakers from the centrist Labor Party were involved in vote-buying schemes in their primary ...
US seizes 2,200 pieces of artwork in US
A federal prosecutor in New Jersey says the government has seized a massive trove of works of art that were used to launder money raised through fraud

Russian banker in fraud case granted London asylum
A Russian banker accused of fraud said Friday he has been granted asylum in Britain to protect him from "baseless" politically motivated charges in ...
Jailed UBS trader seeks to appeal conviction
Britain's Court of Appeal says a former UBS trader found guilty of a fraud that lost the Swiss bank $2.2 billion is seeking to appeal his conviction.
Bulgaria investigates Czech power company
Prosecutors and tax authorities on Wednesday raided the regional headquarters of Czech-owned utility CEZ in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, to ...
Fraud egg? Germany probes mislabeled bio produce
Authorities are investigating whether some 150 farms in northern Germany made false claims about the quality of their eggs. Prosecutors in the city ...

Egypt's vote won't calm turbulent streets
Egypt's streets are turning into a daily forum for airing a range of social discontents from labor conditions to fuel shortages and the casualties of ...
Justice Dept joins suit against Lance Armstrong
The Justice Department joined a lawsuit Friday against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former seven-time Tour de France champion ...

Ireland: Plant sent horse labeled 'beef' to Czechs
An Irish slaughterhouse has been caught labeling horse meat as beef and shipping it to a company in the Czech Republic, Ireland's government said ...

Germany: Tighter controls needed on meat products
German officials on Monday vowed tighter controls on meat products and stronger penalties for companies that violate food-labeling rules as more items ...
Iran court upholds 4 death sentences over fraud
Iran's state prosecutor says the country's Supreme Court has upheld death sentences against four people linked to a $2.6 billion bank fraud described ...

Israel: Ex-foreign minister on trial for fraud
Former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman went on trial Sunday on fraud and breach of trust charges, pleading innocent in a case that could have deep ...

Runners and riders in Europe's horsemeat scandal
The European Union agreed Friday to begin random DNA checks on meat products in a bid to put a lid on a spreading scandal over horsemeat, while ...
Dutch authorities raid butcher in horsemeat probe
Dutch prosecutors say food safety experts have raided a meat processing plant as part of a criminal investigation into horsemeat fraud.
Cagliari president arrested in stadium enquiry
Cagliari President Massimo Cellino is one of three men arrested in an ongoing investigation into the construction of Is Arenas stadium. Cellino is ...

Player regrets getting entangled with match-fixing
Soccer player Mario Cizmek thought it would just be one match. Ease up and let the other team win, he told himself, then collect the payoff and start ...

UK food agency raids abattoir in horsemeat scandal
British authorities on Tuesday raided a slaughterhouse and a meat processing company suspected of selling horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and ...
2 French aid workers convicted of fraud
Two French aid workers were convicted of fraud on Tuesday and sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to bring 103 children from central Africa to ...

Romania: Slaughterhouses did not commit fraud
A maze of trading between meat wholesalers has made it increasingly difficult to trace the origins of food — enabling horsemeat disguised as beef to ...