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...Unsafe Haven In an ongoing probe of the company's tax advice, U.S. regulators accused accounting firm KPMG of concealing its role in creating potentially abusive tax shelters...
...INDICATORS Taking The Rap Bengt Braun, chairman of Swedish insurer Skandia, resigned after a report alleged former executives misled the board and received excessive bonuses in the late '90s. Braun was not accused in the probe, but he sat on the board during that period...
...sitting President. Touched off this year when auditors looking into possible accounting fraud at SK's trading arm, SK Global, uncovered a multimillion-dollar political slush fund and bank accounts linked to both Roh's campaign and those of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP), the probe is unprecedented in scope and scale. Political pundits are comparing the dragnet to Italy's "Clean Hands" crackdown of the early 1990s, when reform-minded investigators sent hundreds of businessmen, bureaucrats and prominent politicians to jail. GNP members are also under investigation: GNP lawmaker Choi Don Woong has already admitted to taking...
...Offense, in this case, means looking less guilty than the other guy. Roh strategists figure the President will triumph because the prosecutors' probe will likely show the GNP, whose candidate was the favorite to win last fall's presidential elections, took in more illegal contributions. But incalculable damage to Roh's once clean image has already been done. One of the biggest embarrassments came in July when a national television network ran a videotape of Roh's personal secretary Yang Gil Seung cavorting in a sleazy nightclub south of Seoul with the club's owner?a man who has been...
...cleared $5 billion this year just selling his assets in Russia." Abramovich was recently overheard at a party saying: "I would not find it too hard to make myself love life in Britain." Who could blame him for wanting to try? Last week, Russian authorities announced a tax probe into Sibneft. Then a Moscow court agreed to hear a suit against the Yukos-Sibneft merger. The Duma passed new rules to grant the state free rein to raise oil export duties and to strike tax amnesty from the criminal code. Finally, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin pushed through a new bill...