The con artists, fraudsters, and deceivers who fooled the world.
Steinhoff International’s fraud shook three continents as the South African retail giant’s fictitious transactions destroyed billions in shareholder value overnight.
HealthSouth’s $2.7 billion accounting fraud: how CEO Richard Scrushy pressured employees to inflate earnings for a decade while fooling Wall Street analysts.
The Stanford Financial Group Ponzi scheme: how Allen Stanford sold $7 billion in fake CDs from Antigua, defrauding 18,000 investors in a decades-long fraud.
The Bre-X Minerals fraud: how a $6 billion gold mining hoax was built on salted core samples in Borneo, ending with a mysterious death in the Indonesian jungle.
How $4.5 billion was looted from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund in one of history’s largest kleptocracy cases, involving Goldman Sachs and global money laundering.
The Olympus scandal revealed a $1.7 billion cover-up spanning two decades, where executives hid massive investment losses through fraudulent acquisition fees in Japan.
India’s largest corporate fraud exposed: how Satyam Computer Services’ chairman fabricated $1 billion in cash and 13,000 fake employees in a years-long accounting scheme.
WorldCom’s $11 billion accounting fraud was hidden in plain sight — until one internal auditor dug in alone without authorization. Here’s exactly how the fraud was discovered.
Wirecard fooled investors, journalists, and European regulators for years. Here’s how €24 billion evaporated from a company that never really existed in the first place.
Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski used unauthorized bonuses, fake loans, and company funds to steal $400 million from shareholders. Here’s how he hid it — and how he got caught.