PRESS RELEASE: SEC Charges China-Based Executives with Securities Fraud - Wall Street Journal

PRESS RELEASE: SEC Charges China-Based Executives with Securities Fraud
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22, 2012 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two China-based executives with defrauding investors into believing they were investing in a Chinese coal business when in fact they were investing in an empty shell company.

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Federal suit: Buda ex-con fleeced investors of millions - Hays Free Press

Federal suit: Buda ex-con fleeced investors of millions
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He later pleaded guilty to bank fraud and received a 37-month prison sentence. Once released, an unlicensed Cornett began to invest in the foreign exchange market and lost around $73000 for investors from August 2006 to May 2007, court records show.

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BNY Accused of $1.5 Billion Fraud in Amended US Complaint - BusinessWeek

BNY Accused of $1.5 Billion Fraud in Amended US Complaint
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“Standing instruction was so much more profitable to BNYM than any other foreign exchange service because it relied on a fraudulent business model,” Preet Bharara, the US Attorney in Manhattan, said in the filing. The government's lawsuit is one of ...
Feds amend, add details to Bank of New York Mellon complaint Middle East North Africa Financial Network

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2G scam: ED presents status report to CVC - IBNLive.com


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2G scam: ED presents status report to CVC
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The nearly two-hour presentation by the ED encapsulated its probe related to alleged contraventions regarding money laundering and foreign exchange violations in the 2G case, which included information obtained by the agency from outside the country.

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Arrests Made in NK Stock Scam - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Arrests Made in NK Stock Scam
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Min-Jeong Lee AP Currency traders work near the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, on Jan. 6. South Korean police said on Tuesday they had ...

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Houston Prosecutor Gregg Costa Has Kept Stanford Case on Track - Main Justice

Houston Prosecutor Gregg Costa Has Kept Stanford Case on Track
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He began investigating Stanford's far-flung operations on a tip that federal regulators had given his Washington-based co-lead counsel Paul Pelletier, a former Justice Department Fraud Section boss in the Criminal Division who joined Mintz Levin LLP in ...

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Foreign Bribery, Wynn, Parmalat, Paulson, Teva in Court News - BusinessWeek

Foreign Bribery, Wynn, Parmalat, Paulson, Teva in Court News
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The SEC case is Securities and Exchange Commission v. Stanford International Bank, 09-cv-298, US District Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas). A US appeals court again revived two lawsuits by Parmalat SpA against accounting firm Grant Thornton ...

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