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Kenneth Lay, American businessman who built energy company Enron; one of the highest paid CEOs in the U.S. until he was ousted as chairman and convicted of fraud (Inflated profits of 600 million$) and conspiracy, although, as a result of his death, his conviction was vacated [42]
Accounting fraud. An auditor was murdered, an adviser committed suicide. The largest collapse in Hong Kong history. Texaco: United States: 13 April 1987: Oil: After a legal battle with Pennzoil, whereby it was found to owe a debt of $10.5 bn, Texaco went into bankruptcy. It was later resurrected and taken over by Chevron. Qintex: Australia ...
МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion.
He agreed to forfeit $3.18 million in accounting fees and withdrawals from his account with Madoff. His involvement makes the Madoff scheme not only the largest Ponzi scheme ever uncovered, but the largest accounting fraud in world history. [127] The $64.8 billion claimed to be in Madoff accounts dwarfed the $11 billion fraud at WorldCom.
Telexfree (stylized as TelexFREE), a trade name owned by Telexfree Inc., was a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme disguised as an internet phone service company. Prosecutors have described it as the largest fraud of all time in terms of the number of people affected - more than 1 million, with victims in various countries.
She defrauded more than 16,000 Thais in a pyramid scheme worth $204 million at the time. [8] However, the Thai law of the time specified that those convicted of fraud could not serve more than twenty years in prison and her mandatory release was 2009, she was paroled after only eight. [9] Othman El Gnaoui 2007 42,924 years Spain
Bernard Lawrence Madoff (/ ˈ m eɪ d ɔː f / MAY-dawf; [2] April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. [3] [4] He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. [5]
The following is a list of the 20 largest settlements reached between the United States Department of Justice and pharmaceutical companies from 2001 to 2013, ordered by the size of the total settlement. The settlement amount includes both the civil (False Claims Act) settlement and criminal fine.