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Mazars issues ‘adverse’ audit opinion on asset management group’s latest accounts
...Mr Justice Smith adjourned his decision on the disclosure application....
...Additional reporting by Robert Smith...
German financier is trying to fend off litigation from a number of aggrieved creditors
Financier named among suspects following two-year police investigation into collapse of funds offered by bank
...Additional reporting by Ian Smith and Cynthia O’Murchu in London...
Financier had tried to back out of 2020 deal to buy half of Global Champions citing financial difficulties caused by the pandemic
Companies listed on bills tell the FT they did not do the stated business
Investors in asset manager were hit by group’s outsized exposure to German financier Lars Windhorst
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Natixis, KPMG and CACEIS also sued in first major litigation relating to illiquid asset scandal
Injunction stems from ArcelorMittal’s 2019 sale of European steel plants to Liberty
...Smith (best known for her children’s novel The Hundred and One Dalmations) had a waspish sense of humour and equips her characters with some mic-drop lines....
...Polish prosecutors identified the suspect as Paweł K and said that he had “expressed willingness to act on behalf of the Russian military intelligence and established contacts with citizens of the Russian...
...Sir Iain Duncan Smith, another former Conservative leader and a leading China hawk, said he was “astonished” at the appointment as foreign secretary of “a man who appears to be so close to China, going back...
London high court judge finds financier deliberately missed hearing in case brought by creditor
...Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming warned Gruenberg that he “sure as heck better do something” about the culture of the FDIC, which she described as “disgusting”....
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Flamboyant owner of obscure website claims files were “absolutely not secret”
...That was before DD’s Robert Smith and FT investigative journalist Cynthia O’Murchu exposed that H2O had poured nearly €1.5bn into Windhorst’s network of rickety ventures back in 2019....
...If readers know anything more about either Gupta’s trading operations, do get in touch with us at robert.smith@ft.com and cynthia.omurchu@ft.com...
Silver Bank’s shareholder has ties to alleged fraudster Prateek Gupta
...In another reported exchange, Forlano replied that “Rigatoni”, a nickname for Viggiano, “literally works for” Blackstone, and Bleckley responded, “F[**]k u should’ve told me f[**]k the feds.”...
...Additional reporting by Will Louch and Cynthia O’Murchu...
Penalty comes as asset manager announces first repayment to investors with frozen funds
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