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...“We accept, on the basis of evidence produced by the defendants, . . . it appears that a large amount of that material is fictitious,” he said....
...SoftBank’s Vision Fund has been accused of deliberately “destroying” a Gen Z-focused social media company it once valued at more than $1bn to safeguard its reputation as an investor amid a probe by regulators...
...In 2021, SoftBank’s Son was so taken by the pitch for the Gen Z app that he “wanted to meet within 48 hours and offered a $500mn investment”, Shafi has claimed — five times what the founder had suggested...
...“Since 2019, defendants have booked billions of dollars’ worth of fictitious transactions through two Nigerian subsidiary companies Mmobuosi founded and controls, reporting hundreds of millions of dollars...
...The office later warned of a “fictitious” document making the rounds....
...The companies are also defendants....
...“It has caused major damage in my family, and I take responsibility for it all from A to Z.”...
...The case against Dow Chemical and other companies first went to a French appeals court in 2018. That court ruled for the defendants in May 2022, prompting the supreme court appeal....
...defendant companies....
...Cohen and Arnal have been named as defendants in a recent class-action lawsuit that accused the individuals, as well as JPMorgan Securities, of creating a “share-dumping crash”....
...The late Jacques Chirac was handed a suspended jail sentence in 2011 for misusing public funds by hiring fictitious employees during his earlier stint as Paris mayor....
...In a court document filed in New York, lawyers for BR Shetty claimed that the Indian-born tycoon had been defrauded through a “debt-fuelled Ponzi scheme” involving fictitious invoices, artificial inflation...
...A Macroniste law on “the moralisation of politics” stopped MPs from hiring relatives or spending without providing invoices. Fillon was convicted for employing his wife in a fictitious job....
...Copé is set to be called as a witness in the case, but was not indicted along with the other defendants....
...Danish prosecutors allege that the state Treasury lost out on more than DKr1.1bn ($175m) after the six people charged used hundreds of fictitious share trades through a German bank in 2014 and 2015 to reclaim...
...“This is about a fraud on the taxpayer, on public funds, carried out by the defendants to benefit Serco, a company which employed them.”...
...As part of a lawsuit filed in London’s High Court by minority investors in Hermes alleging a conspiracy to defraud them, O’Sullivan, who was not a defendant, was described by the plaintiffs as one of the...
...The defendants must also pay back more than €1m to the French parliament. Antonin Lévy, Mr Fillon’s defence lawyer, said: “This unjust decision will be appealed. There will be a new trial.”...
...Mr Lévy, Mr Fillon’s lawyer, criticised the fact that the trial order was leaked to the press before the defendants were notified....
...elaborate fraud involving false statements, fictitious documents and sham companies....
...In order to hide the Russian origins of their activities, the defendants allegedly purchased space on computer servers, located here in the United States, in order to set up a virtual private network....
...of acquisition—Defendants obtained a Tax Identification Number (“TIN”) for Phoenix....
...Later, the deals involved fictitious sales of food to Tehran, as shipments of food and medicine were exempt from the sanctions....
...Valeant, the Canadian drugmaker, perpetrated a vast fraud by operating a secret network of pharmacies, employing deceptive pricing practices and using fictitious accounting techniques, according to a lawsuit...
...Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) — a fictitious account of a year in the life of the plague-ridden city and in many ways the first London novel — portrays a city divided by wealth and fear...
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