A North East businesswoman who forged invoices as part of a £87,000 VAT fraud involving her party businesses, has been jailed for failing to comply with an order to repay the money
Web services provider Yahoo has been fined $35m (£16.5m) by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle charges that it misled investors by failing to disclose one of the world’s largest data breaches in which hackers stole personal data relating to hundreds of millions of user accounts
Two businessmen have been jailed for a total of eight years and seven months after stealing £145,000 in VAT and laundering money for individuals who are in prison for a £2.6m tax fraud
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are to fine Barclays CEO Jes Staley over an alleged breach of conduct after he attempted to find out the identity of a whistleblower in 2016
A former finance director who was given a ten-year jail sentence for his role in a £160m financing fraud has been ordered to pay a confiscation order of £194,343 in full within three months or a default sentence of two years will be activated
A financial controller has received a 13-year bankruptcy restrictions order (BRO) following a trial for diverting funds from her employer to herself, after an investigation by the Insolvency Service
A man who has been made bankrupt four times has been handed a 14-year bankruptcy restriction, for obtaining credit without disclosing to his lenders he had been banned from doing so
A city accountant turned property developer who created false invoices to commit £260,000 VAT fraud has been given a suspended jail sentence following an HMRC investigation
Two pub landlords from Cheshire have been disqualified for seven years after an Insolvency Service investigation found they had abused insolvency laws to avoid paying debts, while continuing to keep their pub open
The manager of a male stripping troupe, who was sentenced in her absence for tax and benefit fraud, has been jailed after more than a year spent on the run
The ringleaders of an eight-strong gang of labourers from the West Midlands have been jailed for attempting to steal £300,000 through fake tax claims which were uncovered during an HMRC investigation
In this month's roundup of cases and disqualifications, HMRC triumphs in Cyclops tax avoidance case, 12-year ban for director over fake invoices, jail for tax fraudster over £280k
A boss of an Aintree-based construction firm has banned from running companies for eight years after he moved more than £1m out of his failing business to avoid paying debts
A church leader from Luton, who lied about charity donations to fraudulently claim £150,000 gift aid repayments, has been jailed for four years after an investigation by HMRC
