White-collar crime is the range of crimes that are committed by professionals who are either in business or government. It is a term that refers to crimes that involve deceit, concealment or some abuse of trust rather than the use or threat of physical violence.
White-collar crime is the range of crimes that are committed by professionals who are either in business or government. It is a term that refers to crimes that involve deceit, concealment or some abuse of trust rather than the use or threat of physical violence.
Azizur Rahman
17 January 2018
India's market regulator has banned international accounting firm PwC from auditing listed companies for two years because of its role in one of the country's biggest corporate scandals.
Azizur Rahman
19 December 2017
HS2, the £55.7 billion project to build a new high speed rail line, is vulnerable to fraud and other financial errors because of a lack of “basic financial controls”, according to MP’s.
Azizur Rahman
12 December 2017
A US-based Volkswagen executive has been sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $400,000 for his role in the diesel emissions scandal.
Azizur Rahman
22 November 2017
A Spanish court has ordered the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stand trial for fraud.
Azizur Rahman
22 November 2017
Fraud has become the most common criminal offence in the UK, with it costing £190 billion a year.
Azizur Rahman
1 September 2017
A Volkswagen engineering employee has been jailed for 40 months and ordered to pay a $200,000 fine for his role in emissions test cheating.
Azizur Rahman
23 August 2017
A former chief executive officer of US medical device company ArthroCare Corporation has been convicted of helping orchestrate a fraud scheme that led to shareholder losses of over $750 million.
Azizur Rahman
9 August 2017
Former pharmaceutical chief executive Martin Shkreli, once dubbed America’s most hated man, has been found guilty of three counts of securities fraud after being investigated by the FBI.
Azizur Rahman
26 July 2017
The trial of four former Barclays executives, on allegations they conspired to commit fraud over the bank’s 2008 fundraising with Qatar, will begin in January 2019.
Azizur Rahman
26 July 2017
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), which monitors and enforces accounting standards, has said it will investigate audits by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) of BT's financial statements from 2015 to 2...