International Business News - Scandal http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Costa Rica has replaced two top intelligence officials because a government password apparently was used to loot private bank accounts. Prosecutors have accused the deputy director of the Intelligence and Security Directorate, Roberto Guillen, of helping steal from private bank accounts after accessing credit reports through a government account with a private data company. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/costa-rica-ousts-top-2-intel-officials.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:57:35 EST A man who confessed to the stabbing death of a former health official sent an e-mail, published Monday in Japanese newspapers, that accuses the ministry of killing his childhood pet dog. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/japan-suspect-in-officials-death-gives-motive.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:32:57 EST Police on Sunday searched the home of a man who claimed to have fatally stabbed a former Japanese health official in a high-profile case believed to be linked to the loss of millions of pension records. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180578-japan-pension-scandal.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/man-tells-japanese-police-he-stabbed-bureaucrat.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/man-tells-japanese-police-he-stabbed-bureaucrat.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:13:38 EST A man claiming to have fatally stabbed a former Japanese health official in a high-profile case that police believe is linked to the loss of millions of pension records turned himself in to authorities, police said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180450-japan-pension-scandal.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/man-tells-japanese-police-he-stabbed-bureaucrat.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/man-tells-japanese-police-he-stabbed-bureaucrat.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:31:32 EST The Interior Department has taken disciplinary action against more than a half dozen workers who accepted lavish gifts, partied and in some cases had sex with employees from the energy companies they regulated. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/interior-dept-takes-action-after-scandal.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:24:37 EST Police said Friday they were investigating whether stabbings that targeted two former Health Ministry officials and their wives was connected to the ministry's mishandling of millions of pension records. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/179422-japan-bureaucrat-attacks.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/japan-suspects-stabbings-linked-to-pension-scandal.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/japan-suspects-stabbings-linked-to-pension-scandal.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:22:37 EST Japan placed Health Ministry officials under heavy security after two stabbings targeted former elite bureaucrats and their wives, attacks that many are linking to public outrage over a scandal that has left millions without pensions. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/japan-stabbings-seen-linked-to-pension-scandal.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:47:22 EST A former French prime minister was ordered Tuesday to stand trial over a political smear campaign against Nicolas Sarkozy before he became France's president, a French judicial official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/official-former-french-pm-ordered-to-stand-trial.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:08:48 EST Oral Roberts University will lay off about 100 employees, days after it agreed to a near-$450,000 separation agreement with its former president who resigned amid a spending scandal. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/oral-roberts-university-to-lay-off-100-employees.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:04:17 EST Chile is scrambling to reach people who could be unknowingly spreading AIDS. Public health services failed to tell 512 people that they tested positive for HIV, and private-sector services failed to inform an estimated 1,700, Health Minister Alvaro Erazo told lawmakers Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/hundreds-in-chile-not-told-of-positive-hiv-tests.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:49:53 EST Hundreds of Mexicans say a depilation chain that closed abruptly took their money but not their hair, and officials said Monday they would file fraud charges against the company. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/mexico-says-depilation-fraud-left-clients-plucked.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:29:41 EST A former supervisor for a federal agency entangled in an ethics and sex scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday to failing to report that an oil industry contractor paid for a hunting trip he took. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081106/mms-ex-staffer-admits-failing-to-report-gift.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:14:49 EST The District of Columbia sued Bank of America on Friday in an attempt to recoup its losses from a $48 million fraud scheme in the city's tax office. Harriette Walters, a former manager in the office, pleaded guilty last month to leading the scheme, which spanned nearly two decades. Bank of America was the main bank used to deposit phony property tax refunds that Walters generated for her associates. A former bank employee, Walter Jones, pleaded guilty in the scheme. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/city-sues-bank-of-america-over-tax-office-scheme.htm Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:20:06 EDT Lazard Capital Markets and four former employees have agreed to pay more than $3 million to resolve a federal complaint over lavish gifts the brokerage firm showered on Fidelity Investments employees to win the mutual fund company's lucrative trading business. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081030/sec-reaches-3m-deal-with-lazard-ex-employees.htm Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:35 EDT Chile's Health Minister is resigning amid an uproar over the government's failure to notify people who had tested positive for AIDS. Presidential spokesman Francisco Vidal said Tuesday President Michelle Bachelet accepted the resignation of Soledad Barria. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081028/chiles-health-minister-quits-over-aids-scandal.htm Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:59:25 EDT A Japanese court on Tuesday convicted a naval officer of leaking classified U.S.-developed missile technology data, sentencing him to a suspended prison term. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081028/japan-navy-officer-convicted-in-data-leak-scandal.htm Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:09:26 EDT Four former hospital administrators accused of embezzlement have entered not guilty pleas in a U.S. Virgin Islands court. The defendants are former hospital CEOs Rodney Miller and Amos Carty Jr., ex-CFO Peter Najawicz and former hospital board chief June Adams. They were arraigned Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081024/usvi-hospital-officials-not-guilty-of-embezzling.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:33:48 EDT Four former hospital administrators accused of embezzlement have entered not guilty pleas in a U.S. Virgin Islands court. The defendants are former hospital CEOs Rodney Miller and Amos Carty Jr., ex-CFO Peter Najawicz and former hospital board chief June Adams. They were arraigned Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/virgin-islands-hospital-officials-plead-not-guilty.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:23:55 EDT A top aide to Greece's prime minister resigned from the Cabinet Thursday over a monastery land swap scandal that has undermined the conservative government. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/158161-greece-land-scandal.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/greek-minister-resigns-over-land-swap-scandal.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/greek-minister-resigns-over-land-swap-scandal.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:25 EDT It was a potent mix: a Greek holiday isle, the scorching summer sun, a Russian oligarch with a huge yacht, and some of Britain's top politicians. When trouble hit back home, it wasn't sex or drugs. It was money--an allegation that the opposition Conservative Party's second most powerful figure solicited an illegal political contribution from a Russian businessman. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/158353-britain.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/britain-buzzing-over-scandal-with-russian-oligarch.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/britain-buzzing-over-scandal-with-russian-oligarch.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:26:27 EDT