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...very brave person that concluded Mr. Khodorkovsky is the end of the trail," says Tim Osborne, managing director of Menatep. Putin has said he wants to encourage Western investment and has no intention of destroying Yukos. Russian officials say the back-taxes claim is based on an official audit...
...process provided a brief windfall for the Palestinians, bringing Arafat $4 billion in donations from the U.S., the European Union, Japan and sales tax gathered by Israel that was passed on to him. But much of that was wasted or skimmed by corrupt Arafat associates. When a Palestinian Authority audit exposed the corruption in 1997, Arafat ordered future audits to be kept secret...
...August 2002, international donors forced Arafat to sign over his investments to the Palestine Investment Fund, which was audited by U.S. accountants and managed by Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, a former International Monetary Fund official. After scouring corporations throughout the Arab world and bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg, the auditors identified $800 million, which has been made a part of the Palestinian Authority's official budget. "It's the most successful financial reform in the Arab world," says Jim Prince, president of the Los Angeles--based Democracy Council and head of the audit team...
Putin has said he wants to encourage Western investment in Russia and has no intention of destroying Yukos. Russian officials say the back-taxes claim is based on an official audit...
...year - quickly backed off. The accounts were certified and Mamoli sent a terse e-mail to his colleague Villar. "For the future," he wrote, before contacting Parmalat on any issue, "you should contact me in advance to discuss possible solutions." Other Deloitte partners also had serious concerns. In an audit report dated March 28, 2003, Deloitte's Maltese office questioned a $7 billion intercompany transfer that is now known to have been fictitious. The Deloitte auditor in Brazil, Wanderley Olivetti, raised such a stink to the Milan office about Parmalat's Brazilian accounts that the matter went...