Accounting fraud

The 2014 scandal prompted a boardroom house-cleaning and an overhaul of the U.K. grocer’s supplier relations.

Michael Lynch, the former chief executive officer of Autonomy Corp., stepped down Friday as an adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May after he was charged with fraud by the U.S.

The commodity-trading firm is being investigated by three Singaporean agencies more than three years after a whistle-blower questioned the company’s accounting.

The Nissan chairman was arrested in Japan for alleged financial violations and faces removal from his job.

Samsung Group’s biotechnology unit is facing a potential criminal investigation and delisting after South Korea’s financial regulator said that the company “intentionally” violated accounting rules surrounding an initial public offering.

The retailer provided South African officers with information about transactions involving more former executives who may have contributed to its accounting crisis.

A study suggests that a background in audit can be a double-edged sword in the C-suite.

About one-quarter of perpetrators of financial reporting misconduct experience a net benefit, even after getting caught.

Sacha Romanovitch will not stand for re-election for a second term and will step down after a successor is appointed before the end of this year.

Luke Johnson should have read his own aide-memoire. A month after the Patisserie Holdings Plc chairman published an advice column on spotting fraud, his finance chief has been arrested in an accounting scandal that threatened to shut the cake baker’s 200-plus stores.