Financial crimes

The Securities and Exchange Commission has imposed a civil penalty on the car rental giant for misstating pretax income.

Stat scam; shopping center switcheroo; what a pain; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Can’t impersonate guilt; Breakthrough busted; married lawyers plead; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Big bank shuffle; tax fraud smoked; asphalt, trees and evasion; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Michael Cohen is headed to prison, pledging he will continue to spill potentially damaging information to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and other prosecutors.

The auditor that shed clients and staff hopes to reestablish its business in the country.

Businesses are tweaking their cash flow and accruals to lower their interest rates on borrowing.

Flag on the play; $7,500 in fake doctors; money funneled through the pulpit; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The news comes exactly a year after the disclosure of accounting irregularities and the resignation of its CEO threw the company into crisis.

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 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program has closed and there are new, tougher procedures in place.

Fish tales; from the general to the illegal; dinged; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Sunset for a tax scheme; $4,000 in phony refunds per return; aging badly; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

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.

Walls of straw; fuel for fraud; silver and gold and evasion; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

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.

Technology is helping special agents root out tax fraud and evasion, despite a declining workforce.

Info direct from an IRS site; $15 million in phony refunds; school’s out; and other highlights of recent tax cases.