- Classic Financial and Corporate Scandals
- BCCI, Barings, Daiwa, Enron, Sumitomo, Credit Lyonnais, Bre-X, Lloyds,
NASDAQ, Savings and Loan, WorldCom, Parmalat etc.
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- Scandals involving Central Banks
- Criminal or scandalous activity involving the pillars of the
international financial system.
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- Political Corruption
- Corruption in governments and official organisations in Great Britain,
Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries.
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- Organized Crime: the Mafia etc.
- The Cosa Nostra or Mafia, the Yakuza and other major criminal
organisations and their role in financial scandals.
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- Money Laundering
- How it is done and what is being done about it.
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- Bankers Behaving Badly
- Cases of sexual harassment, racism, embarrassing e-mails, and outrageous
extravagance.
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- Official Regulatory and Anti-Fraud
Organisations
- Links to the web sites of official organisations combating fraud.
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- Other Organisations Fighting Financial
Crime
- Professional Bodies, Investigative Services and Forensic Accounting.
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- Finding More Information about Business
Scandals
- Links to other sources of information.
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Derivatives, non-existent
gold reserves and impenetrable accounts, have been the stuff of frauds on
an almost incomprehensible scale. The activities of Nick Leeson, Toshihide
Iguchi, Yasuo Hamanaka, John Rusnak, Jerome Kerviel and the bosses of Enron
and Parmalat have made the bank robbing activities of Jesse James and the
outlaws of the old Wild West seem like pathetic, kindergarten stuff in
comparison. This is a guide with lots of links to information on these and
other lesser-known financial scandals. While most of the cases in these
pages involve real or suspected criminal activity a few are included simply
because the scale of the incompetence or greed makes them scandalous.
Is truth always stranger than fiction or can fiction
forewarn us of dangers lying in wait? Information about the works of
Linda Davies, former investment banker and now
a novelist. Most of her novels are now also available as ebooks.
Essays on Particular Kinds of
Scandals
- Dangerous Diamonds
- An article on the history of the diamond industry and its role in
wars, including civil wars, terrorism, and other, less threatening
controversies.
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- Gambling on Derivatives: Hedging Risk or
Courting Disaster?
- A review of some of the reasons why there have been many cases of
enormous losses associated with the use of financial derivatives.
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- The Psychology of Risk, Speculation and
Fraud
- What are the motivations that turn some people into lawful
speculators and others into financial criminals? The text of a speech
given at a conference on European Monetary Union.
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- The Rise and Fall of Alberto
Fujimori
- How the man who saved Peru from terrorism and hyperinflation became
an exile in Japan, forced to flee after his right-hand man was implicated
in bribery, arms trafficking, moneylaundering, and human rights
abuses.
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