Ex-president of Baltiyskiy Bank charged with embezzlement declared bankrupt – RAPSI

11:43 28/06/2018 MOSCOW, June 28 (RAPSI, Nikita Shiryayev) The Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has declared co-owner and ex-president of Baltiyskiy Bank Oleg Shigayev, who stands charged with embezzlement of 3 billion rubles ($55 million), bankrupt, according to court records. Earlier, the court has initiated debt restructuring process against Shigayev. His debt…

Franchise fined nearly $100000 by watchdog for poor record-keeping – SmartCompany.com.au

A former Caltex franchisee has today been handed nearly $100,000 in penalties by Australias Fair Work Ombudsman over serious breaches of the watchdogs record-keeping laws. The Sydney-based Five Dock store was first pulled up before the Ombudsman last year over allegations the franchisee had underpaid six international workers, but on investigation, the documents provided to the…

Assault, lawsuit threats push insolvency professionals to duck for insurance cover – Moneycontrol.com

Devendra Jain, a veteran insolvency professional recently faced a tough time when he was kidnapped from a Mumbai suburb. A group of investors, attempting to derail insolvency proceedings, mistook him for a company official in relation to a ponzi-scheme case. Jain, who is also the founder-chairman and managing director of NPAsource.com, an NPA-listing portal for…

The Big Four face the dismembering of accountancy’s ‘cosy club’ – Financial Times

The Big Four accountancy firms have lived a charmed life. Despite repeated audit scandals their profitable oligopoly has survived intact. Now, in the light of this weeks damning parliamentary report on the collapse of UK government contractor Carillion, an overdue reckoning may be imminent. The case of Carillion perfectly illustrates the lack of competition and…