An NRI businessman and two of his British accomplices have been arrested here on charges of duping over 600 people, including celebrities like former cricketer Darren Gough and singer Jerome Flynn,......
Bharara's presence at Trump Tower provoked much curiosity.George Joseph reports from New York. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, will stay on in the......
The ice is broken. The chairman of a company that was considered one of the torchbearers of India's new economy has confessed to one of the country's biggest corporate frauds. Satyam is the company......
I hope I am proved wrong. However, in all likelihood, the next big Ponzi scheme to be unearthed in a few years from now will be a mobile-based application or app. As smartphones penetrate through......
Operators of illegal money-pooling schemes will soon face penalties of up to three times the profit made by them, as against the current provision of a meagre fine of Rs 1 crore.The capital markets......
For at least 13 years, big and small investors alike turned over their money to Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh, two New York money managers, in the belief that an "enhanced equity index" strategy......
Bernie Madoff's game got over some time in March 2009. His investment advisory business, Madoff admitted, was a gigantic Ponzi scheme. He had defrauded thousands of high net-worth investors of......
The 12th Rajiv Gandhi awards were held at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) in South Mumbai, and was well-attended by film personalities and politicians alike. The event was......
Mumbai Indians all-rounder Dwayne Bravo celebrates after running out Kings XI Punjab batsman Irfan Pathan during the 2009 Indian Premier League in Centurion, on Tuesday. Bravo smashed a quickfire......
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies were charged with "massive" fraud on Tuesday as federal agents swooped down on his US headquarters. In a civil complaint filed in......