Ex-UN consultants jailed for bribes over drugs supplied to ‘starving Africans’ Guido Bakker sentenced to one year and Sijbrandus Scheffer to 15 months after rigging pharmaceutical contracts for DRC Two former UN consultants have been jailed by a UK court for receiving bribes to rig contracts worth £66m to supply life-saving drugs to the Democratic […]

Chad, Chris, and Craig Ducey pleaded guilty to conspiracy, false claims against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), wire fraud and lying to the EPA and the IRS in connection with their roles in a multi-state scheme to defraud biodiesel buyers by fraudulently selling biodiesel incentives. The Ducey brothers operated Middletown, Indiana-based E-biofuels LLC.  As part […]

SNC-Lavalin, the Montreal-based engineering company, and two of its units were charged on Thursday with fraud and bribery in relation to their dealings with the regime of Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator. From the New York Times read more: http://nyti.ms/1Em8bvn

Following his conviction on eight counts of fraud, forgery, false accounting and fraudulent trading Ulf Magnus Peterson, the former head of Weavering Macro Income Fund Limited, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The fund subsequently collapsed in March 2009, leading to net losses for investors of approximately US$536 million. A hearing has been […]

Three men have been convicted and sentenced as part of the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) investigation into Sustainable Growth Group and its subsidiary companies. Gary Lloyd West, James Brunel Whale and Stuart John Stone were convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to furnish false information, fraudulent trading and Bribery Act 2010 offences in relation […]