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Italy: Investigation ‘Final Toast’ exposes €30 million VAT fraud involving beverages
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Italy: Investigation ‘Final Toast’ exposes €30 million VAT fraud involving beverages

(Luxembourg, 27 February 2024) – In the context of a large-scale investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), several searches, arrests and seizures took place between Saturday and Monday, in a probe into an alleged criminal association suspected of aggravated VAT fraud involving beverages and EU funding fraud.  The Italian Financial...

California recycler to pay back $140 million in fraud case
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California recycler to pay back $140 million in fraud case

Recycling Services Alliance must pay $140.5 million under the state of California’s final decision in a yearslong bottle and can smuggling case.  Sacramento-based Recycling Services Alliance and its operations manager, Maximina Perez, previously agreed to pay criminal judgments of $53.9 million in an earlier plea deal. A final agency decision from the California Department of...

Trump Will Pay More Than $111,000 Per Day As He Appeals Fraud Ruling
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Trump Will Pay More Than $111,000 Per Day As He Appeals Fraud Ruling

TOPLINE Former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants filed notice they’re appealing the ruling in the civil fraud case against the ex-president and his company on Monday—and the penalty he has to pay will keep increasing in the meantime, as a nine percent interest rate on the judgment means Trump’s bill will keep ticking up by more...