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The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.
The Satyam Computer Services scandal was India's largest corporate fraud until 2010. The founder and directors of India -based outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services, falsified the accounts, inflated the share price, and stole large sums from the company. Much of this was invested in property. The swindle was discovered in late 2008 when ...
WorldCom scandal. The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came into light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone company at the time. From 1999 to 2002, senior executives at WorldCom led by founder and CEO Bernard Ebbers orchestrated a scheme to inflate earnings in order to maintain ...
Wirecard scandal. Wirecard's headquarters, raided on 1 July 2020 by German authorities [1] The Wirecard scandal ( German: Wirecard-Skandal) was a series of corrupt business practices and fraudulent financial reporting that led to the insolvency of Wirecard, a payment processor and financial services provider, headquartered in Munich, Germany.
Website. www .thinkbrg .com. Berkeley Research Group, LLC ( BRG) is a global consulting firm that helps organizations with assistance in disputes and investigations, corporate finance, and performance improvement and advisory. [2] BRG is headquartered in Emeryville, California, with offices across the United States and in Asia, Australia ...
David Robert Malpass (born March 8, 1956) is an American economic analyst and former government official who served as President of the World Bank Group from 2019 to 2023. . Malpass previously served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs under Donald Trump, Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary under Ronald Reagan, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under George H. W. Bu
Sergei Mavrodi. МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time, in the 1990s. [1] [2] By different estimates from 5 to 10 million people lost their savings. [3] According to contemporary Western press reports, most investors were aware of the fraudulent nature of the scheme, but still hoped to ...
The International Finance Corporation ( IFC) is an international financial institution that offers investment, advisory, and asset-management services to encourage private-sector development in less developed countries. The IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States.