All news on the topic: Fraud

A firm associated with former Conservative peer Michelle Mone has yet to pay the government any of the £122m required by a High Court ruling for supplying unusable personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic.

The jury in the trial of two prominent businessmen facing fraud charges over a £1.1bn property deal have been told that one of them, Frank Cushnahan, was "at the heart of the Northern Ireland government".

A cruel and manipulative fraudster who fled to Tenerife after swindling an elderly woman out of nearly £300,000 faces a six-year sentence when she is brought back to face justice.

Banks will be granted powers to snoop on pensioners’ accounts and share data with the government as part of a huge fraud crackdown.

British betting company Entain’s ENT.L former CEO and other senior directors appeared in a London court on Monday charged with bribery and fraud connected to gambling in Turkey.

Will the UK sell 61,000 BTC, or pay victims the gains?

Since April 2023, a number of Ukrainian investigators have been raising alarm: Nykyta Izmaylov—a Russian citizen with a Ukrainian passport, who was recently a top financier of Parimatch, is now appearing in money laundering schemes through N1 Management and SportBank.

Explosive court documents in an ongoing tribunal case have revealed how Carter-Ruck, London’s leading libel firm, attempted to assist the fraudsters behind the multibillion-dollar OneCoin crypto scam by casting doubt on a police investigation. They also disclose how the firm issued threats of legal action to "send a clear message" to whistleblowers.

The name of Oleg Tsyura has resurfaced at the centre of a scandal involving former head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Sennychenko, and multi-billion schemes that cost Ukraine over ten billion hryvnias.

A pregnant woman who managed to siphon off more than £900,000 by forging her boss’s signature has been ordered to pay back just £221,000 or go to prison.

An Algerian court sentenced former Labor Minister Tijani Hassan Haddam to seven years in prison for embezzling roughly $45 million during his time as director of the National Social Security Fund from 2015 to 2019, local media reported.

A court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their alleged roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of operating illegal gambling and scam activities worth more than $1.4 billion, and for the deaths of workers who defied them.

There are about 2,000 call centres in Kyiv, scamming thousands of people out of their money every day. This statistic is provided by the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.

Britain’s replacement service for its failed national reporting centre for fraud and financially motivated cybercrime, Action Fraud, is to be named Report Fraud when it is publicly launched later this year, according to multiple sources.

A Czech company and its manager have been convicted of defrauding the European Union of about €220,000 ($258,336) in subsidies for a dust-reduction project, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) said.

Five suspects were arrested and assets frozen during coordinated searches in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria.

The Islam brothers — Moyn, Monir, and Ehsaan — are trying to change their history.

In a covert operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after suggesting he could help the agents — disguised as business executives — secure government contracts in a second Trump administration, according to several people familiar with the investigation and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC.

The Security Service of Ukraine reported a large-scale special operation: a network of call centres operating from Ukraine but targeting citizens of EU countries and Turkey has been exposed.

In April 2025, Oleksandr Horbunenko, a businessman and co-owner of the company «Agro Gas Trading», was detained in the US state of Florida.

France’s financial crimes office is probing ex-Lebanese premier Najib Mikati and his brother for alleged fraud.

The name of Oleg Tsyura surfaced in a scandal involving the former head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Sennychenko, and an enormous scheme that cost Ukraine over ten billion hryvnias.

U.S. hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings collapsed this year due to prolonged neglect and overwhelming debt.

A fugitive tech boss turned Russian spymaster has been found in Moscow.