Four car glass makers have been hit with the European Commission’s largest cartel fine after being found guilty of “cheating” car buyers.
Asahi Glass, Pilkington, Saint-Gobain and Soliver have been ordered to pay 1.38bn euros (£1
Four current and former British Airways executives have been charged with involvement in fixing the prices of plane fuel surcharges.
BA’s head of sales Andrew Crawley and ex-commercial director Martin George are due to appear before City of London Magistrates Court on 24 September.
Also due up are former communications head Iain Burns and former UK and Ireland sales chief Alan Burnett
The chairman of South Korean firm Samsung, Lee Kun-hee, has been indicted for tax evasion and breach of trust, prosecutors say.
The announcement follows a three-month investigation into alleged corruption at South Korea’s biggest conglomerate.
But the probe cleared the firm of allegations by a former executive that it used a multi-million dollar slush fund to bribe prosecutors and judges
The boss of South Korea’s Samsung Group has appeared before special prosecutors to be questioned over allegations of corruption at the firm.
Lee Kun-hee, chairman of the company, the country’s largest conglomerate, is being questioned in regard to an investigation that started in January.
Samsung is accused of operating a 200bn won ($215m; £108m) slush fund to bribe prosecutors, judges and civil servants
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it is suing UK hedge fund Pentagon Capital Management and its chief executive, Lewis Chester.
The watchdog alleges the fund and Mr Chester have schemed to defraud mutual funds and shareholders in the US.
London-based Pentagon Capital said last week it was winding down two funds because it expected the SEC to file civil complaints against Mr Chester
Oil giant BP has been fined a total of $373m (£182m) by the US Department of Justice for environmental crimes and committing fraud.
The fines include $50m relating to a Texas refinery explosion in 2005 that killed 15 people and injured 170 more.
That sum is the highest fine of its kind levied under the Clean Air Act
Joseph Nacchio, the former boss of Qwest Communications, has been sentenced to six years in jail for insider trading.
He has also been ordered to hand over the $52m (£25m) he made from illegal stock trading and has been fined $19m.
Nacchio was found guilty of selling shares ahead of bad corporate news, and hiding information from investors
The private bank of one of France’s biggest banks – BNP Paribas – has been fined $700,000 (£350,000) for allowing a senior manager to steal money from clients.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said controls in the bank’s London office were so weak that the employee had been able to take $3m (£1.4m)
The former boss of US phone company Qwest Communications, Joseph Nacchio, has been found guilty of 19 counts of insider trading.
A court in Denver ruled that in 2001, Nacchio sold $50m (£25m) of Qwest stock after being told the firm would miss its financial targets.
Nacchio, who was cleared on 23 charges, faces up to 10 years in jail and a fine that could total $19m
Controversial tycoon Takafumi Horie has been found guilty of fraud, following a six-month trial which has gripped corporate Japan.
The former boss of the once high-flying internet firm, Livedoor, was found guilty of falsifying the company’s accounts and misleading investors.
Horie, 34, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison