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July 18, 2022
BioReference Health LLC, formerly known as BioReference Laboratories, Inc., and OPKO Health, Inc. have agreed to pay $9.85 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act arising from BioReference’s payment of above-market rents to physician landlords for office space in order to induce referrals from those physicians to BioReference.
July 15, 2022
A Tokyo court Wednesday ordered former executives from the operator of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 13.32 trillion yen ($97 billion) for failing to prevent the disaster, plaintiffs said.
July 14, 2022
The fraud, corruption and money laundering case against five accused – including former Transnet Group Chief Executive, Siyabonga Gama – in relation to corruption at Transnet has been postponed to August in the Palm Ridge Specialised Crimes Court.
July 14, 2022
Two financial asset managers have been charged with money laundering as part of a $1.2 billion international scheme to launder funds corruptly obtained from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
July 14, 2022
Florida-based Solera Specialty Pharmacy has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and agreed to pay a $1.31 million civil settlement to resolve allegations that it submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare for Evzio, a high-priced drug used in rapid reversal of opioid overdoses.
July 13, 2022
The European Commission has fined Crown and Silgan a total of €31.5 million for participating in a cartel concerning sales of metal cans and closures in Germany.
July 13, 2022
A magistrate\'s court in Moscow\'s Tagansky district has found Apple guilty of the refusal to localize personal data of Russian users on Russian territory, an Interfax correspondent reported from the courtroom.
July 13, 2022
Following a guilty plea in the Ontario Court of Justice in Simcoe, Ontario Scotlynn Sweetpac Growers was fined $125,000 by Justice Gethin Edward; Crown Counsels Indira Stewart, Neil Dietrich and Madeleine Chin-Yee.
July 12, 2022
On 8 July, €2 million were seized in a European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) investigation into fraud concerning EU agricultural funds in Sardinia.
July 11, 2022
In May this year, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb filed an indictment against an owner of a family farm in Croatia.
July 11, 2022
A federal jury found Ramesh “Sunny†Balwani guilty of two counts of conspiracy and ten counts of wire fraud though a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud investors and patients in connection with the operations of Theranos.
July 10, 2022
U.S. prosecutors announced the arrest of a Florida man accused of importing counterfeit Cisco networking equipment that if authentic would be worth more than $1 billion, and reselling the fake products on Amazon.com, eBay and elsewhere.