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bp holdings barcelona CINCINNATI (CN) - The 6th Circuit tossed an $82.6 million judgment against companies accused of using false Medicare claims to bilk millions from taxpayers. In a federal whistle-blower complaint, the United States claimed that Renal Care Group, Renal Care Group Supply Co. and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings recklessly disregarded federal law between 1999 and 2005 when billing Medicare for home dialysis supplies and equipment. The government claimed that Renal Care Group had submitted false claims for equipment provided to home dialysis patients, and set up a sham billing company that interfered with patients' choice of supply options and forced their business. U.S. District Judge William Haynes awarded the government $82.6 million at summary judgment, but the federal appeals court reversed Friday. It found that there was no evidence that the defendants acted with actual knowledge or deliberate ignorance of the truth. "The defendants did not act with reckless disregard of the alleged falsity of their submissions to Medicare," Judge R. Guy Cole Jr. wrote for a three-member panel. "And given that there is no evidence in the record that they acted with actual knowledge (in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 3729(b)(1)(A)(i)), or in deliberate ignorance of the truth (in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 3729(b)(1)(A)(ii)), they are therefore not liable under Count One of the complaint for False Claims Act liability." The case has been remanded back to federal court. bp holdings barcelona

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bp holdings barcelona http://bpholdingsbarcelonaandmadridspain.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/bp-holdings-medicare-fraud-ruling-83m.html CINCINNATI (CN) - The 6th Circuit tossed an $82.6 million judgment against companies accused of using false Medicare claims to bilk millions from taxpayers. In a federal whistle-blower complaint, the United States claimed that Renal Care Group, Renal Care Group Supply Co. and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings recklessly disregarded federal law between 1999 and 2005 when billing Medicare for home dialysis supplies and equipment. The government claimed that Renal Care Group had submitted false claims for equipment provided to home dialysis patients, and set up a sham billing company that interfered with patients' choice of supply options and forced their business. U.S. District Judge William Haynes awarded the government $82.6 million at summary judgment, but the federal appeals court reversed Friday. It found that there was no evidence that the defendants acted with actual knowledge or deliberate ignorance of the truth. "The defendants did not act with reckless disregard of the alleged falsity of their submissions to Medicare," Judge R. Guy Cole Jr. wrote for a three-member panel. "And given that there is no evidence in the record that they acted with actual knowledge (in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 3729(b)(1)(A)(i)), or in deliberate ignorance of the truth (in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 3729(b)(1)(A)(ii)), they are therefore not liable under Count One of the complaint for False Claims Act liability." The case has been remanded back to federal court. bp holdings barcelona RELATED ARTICLE: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/10/11/51170.htm

BP America, Inc. announced today it will donate $1 million to support disaster relief efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi following Hurricane Isaac. The donation will be made to the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army and divided equally between the two hardest-hit states. "This assistance cannot fix all that has been broken by this natural disaster, but we hope it can help some of those in need today and contribute to a sustained recovery effort in the months ahead," said Crystal E. Ashby, Executive Vice President of Government and Public Affairs for BP America. The storm forced BP to evacuate workers from offshore platforms and drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as from onshore facilities in south Louisiana and Mississippi, where hundreds of BP employees live. Separate from this donation, BP is also providing assistance to our employees and their families in the region. Read Full Article http://bpspainholdings.wordpress.com

bp madrid holdings anti-fraud news articles Problems regarding tax frauds continue to dwell and even worsens. Efforts are now fully focused on the issue of prioritizing VAT fraud. The debate on VAT fraud has been divided into 2 main areas: 1. Conventional measures to reinforce existing VAT system. 2. More far reaching measures to modify the system, namely: o An option for Member States to introduce a general reverse charge system; o Taxation of Intra-Community transactions The Commission created a new expert group with Member States, the "Anti Tax Fraud Strategy (ATFS)" expert group, with a view to conduct the technical discussions on the conventional measures. The Vat system is not enough to combat a VAT fraud within a single market. There is need to improve a greater system in order to have a harmony and increase in cooperation between the state and the people. The commission proposes to improve measures to strengthen the existing system. Insinuations of tax evasion and target incompetence for income measurement are significant. Systematic misinterpretations of income source present misleading view of income distribution and redistribution profiles. Proposals have been submitted to fight fraud. More far reaching methods such as legislative proposals were released February 2008. In this Communication the Commission analyses the taxation of Intra-Community transactions and the introduction of the option of a general reverse charge system. November 2007, the commission presented a Communication with key elements concerned the conventional measures like the need of tax administrations for accurate information, the integration of an EU approach into the management of the VAT system and the importance of updated information on the VAT status of persons. The programs work by providing global approach to give measures for some action plans: to prevent potential fraudsters, an online confirmation was made available to traders for the vali

Name: TNK-BP Nationality: Russian Federation Nationality: United Kingdom WebAddress: http://www.tnk-bp.com/ General: TNK-BP is a leading Russian oil company and is among the top ten privately-owned oil companies in the world in terms of crude oil production. The company was formed in 2003 as a result of the merger of BP's Russian oil and gas assets and the oil and gas assets of Alfa, Access/Renova group (AAR). BP and AAR each own 50% of TNK-BP. The shareholders of TNK-BP also own close to 50% of Slavneft, a vertically integrated Russian oil company. TNK-BP is a vertically integrated oil company with a diversified upstream and downstream portfolio in Russia and Ukraine. The company's upstream operations are located primarily in West Siberia (Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts, Tyumen Region), East Siberia (Irkutsk Region), and Volga-Urals (Orenburg Region). In 2008 the company (including its 50% share in Slavneft) produced on average 1.85 mboed. The independent audit conducted by DeGolyer and MacNaughton confirmed that as of 31 December 2008 TNK-BP's Total Proved Reserves 10.252 billion barrels of oil equivalent, applying PRMS (formerly SPE) criteria. Proved Reserves constitutes a Total Proved PRMS reserve replacement ratio of 146%. Under SEC methodology on a life of field (LOF) basis, TNK-BP's Total Proved Reserves were 8.112 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This represents a Total Proved SEC (LOF) reserves replacement ratio of 82%. TNK-BP controls 675 thousand bbl/day in installed refining capacity, with principal refining assets located in Ryazan (near Moscow), Saratov (Volga-Urals), Nizhnevartovsk (West Siberia) and Lisichansk in Ukraine. TNK-BP operates a retail network of approximately 1,400 filling stations Russia and Ukraine working under the BP and TNK brands. The company is one of the key suppliers to the Moscow retail market and is a market leader in Ukraine. TNK-BP is headquartered in Moscow and is governed by a multina

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bp holdings Sweden The incidence of financial fraud in the United States is on the rise. Americans submitted more than 1.5 million complaints about financial and other fraud in 2011 - a 62 percent increase in just three years - according to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) annual "Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book" the most comprehensive database of U.S. fraud trends (see Figure 1). Joe Borg, head of Alabama's securities commission and a leader among state securities regulators, agreed there is a proliferation of fraud, and he largely blames the Internet. His agency had an unprecedented 31-case backlog of criminal trials involving financial fraud in September 2011. "It's not unusual to have 20-25 convictions a year, but when we have 31 backed up - and we're trying them as fast as we can - the trend is up," he said. Borg ticks off the reasons: "Downturn in the economy. Fear among the public. The idea that the government can't protect them anymore. Medical costs are going through the roof. Those are fears. The Internet is the vehicle. The Internet's a big, big factor." Neil Power, supervisor of the FBI's Economic Crimes Squad in Boston, said the public is not fully aware of how pervasive fraud is, because only the most prominent cases, such as Bernard L. Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme, are covered by the media. The vast majority of cases fly under the public's radar. "There is a substantial amount of fraud being addressed that's not being covered," he said. Many more scammers are never caught by a regulatory system rife with staff shortages and inadequate resources. For example, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) admitted in April 2010 that it has never examined some 3,000 registered U.S. investment advisers, Investment News reported. In Canada, only a small percentage of total fraud is reported to law enforcement: one in three Canadians has been targeted by a scammer, yet only 14 perc

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Financial Crimes Overview and Priorities: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigates matters relating to fraud, theft, or embezzlement occurring within or against the national and international financial community. These crimes are characterized by deceit, concealment, or violation of trust and are not dependent upon the application or threat of physical force or violence. Such acts are committed by individuals and organizations to obtain personal or business advantage. The FBI focuses its financial crimes investigations on such criminal activities as corporate fraud, securities and commodities fraud, health care fraud, financial institution fraud, mortgage fraud, insurance fraud, mass marketing fraud, and money laundering. These are the identified priority crime problem areas of the Financial Crimes Section (FCS) of the FBI. Mission: The mission of the FCS is to oversee the investigation of financial fraud and to facilitate the forfeiture of assets from those engaging in federal crimes. In fiscal years (FY) 2010-2011, the FCS was comprised of the Asset Forfeiture/Money Laundering Unit (AF/MLU), the Economic Crimes Unit (ECU), the Health Care Fraud Unit (HCFU), the Forensic Accountant Unit (FAU), the Financial Institution Fraud Unit (FIFU), and the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC). The ECU is responsible for significant frauds targeted against individuals, businesses, and industries, to include corporate fraud, insurance fraud (non-health care-related), securities and commodities fraud (e.g., investment fraud schemes such as Ponzi, pyramid, and advanced fee schemes and securities market manipulation schemes), and mass marketing fraud. The HCFU oversees investigations targeting individuals and/or organizations who are defrauding public and private health care systems. Areas investigated under the HCFU include billing for services not rendered, billing for a higher reimbursable service than performed (upcoding), performing unnecessary service

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http://www.euractiv.com/energy/bp-turns-government-russian-vent-news-515565 BP slutar ett stormigt förhållande med ryska tycoons från ett företag som kallas AAR och riktar i stället ett partnerskap med statligt ägda Rosneft. Affären, värt över 25 miljarder dollar (19.18 miljarder euro) skulle kunna ge det brittiska oljebolaget ett spel av mellan 16% och 20% i gigantisk rysk olja. Avtalet, som har ännu inte att slutföras, men som skulle kunna offentliggöras på måndag eller tisdag folds BP: s hälften av TNK-BP, Rysslands tredje största oljebolaget i Rosneft, mot kontanter och Rosneft materiel. BP kan till slut en stormig relation med sina partner i företaget, AAR, och för att göra närmare band till en rysk regering som utövar en mycket strängare håll på oljeindustrin än i det gjorde under 1990-talet när BP första investerat i det. TNK-BP är mycket lönsamma och ger en fjärdedel av BP: s totala produktion, men dess fält är mogen, och de sovjetiska-född business tycoons som äger den andra hälften genom AAR var för BP: s Sök efter tillväxt i oljerika Ryssland genom närmare band med Rosneft och dess kraftfulla boss. Ska affären vara klar och överleva en månader lång godkännandeprocessen, BP: s exponering till Ryssland skulle bli lägre, men det kunde säkra det platser på Rosneft styrelse och närmare band än någon av konkurrenterna till Igor Sechin, verkställande direktör för Rosneft, som har en betydande säga i energipolitiken. I ett uttalande på måndagen bekräftade erbjudande från Rosneft för första gången, sade BP "ingen överenskommelse har ännu nåtts." Omkörning Exxon? Rosneft är redan upp producerar företag i Ryssland. Om som lösning, köper det ut AARS hälften av TNK-BP-samt, kommer att styra nästan halva landets produktion och pumpa mer olja och gas än Exxon Mobil, världens högsta internationella oljebolag. Affären ger Rosneft extra utdata och kassaflöde att finansiera utforskning av Ry

Justice Department attorneys rested their case Wednesday in the federal civil trial of BP and Anadarko Petroleum Corp., as the firms and the government continued to argue over how much oil was released into the Gulf of Mexico in the 87 days following the April 20, 2010, blowout of BP's Macondo well. Justice attorneys finished questioning experts who support the government's contention that the oil spill resulted in the release of at least 4.2 million barrels of oil into Gulf. BP and Anadarko have maintained that only 2.45 million barrels of oil were released, and are set to begin making their case Thursday. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is presiding over the trial without a jury, listening attentively and interrupting at times with his own questions about the often mind-numbing testimony describing the physics and mathematical equations that experts from both sides have used to estimate the flow of oil. BP's estimate would result in maximum fines of $2.7 billion, billion, if Barbier decides the company and its drilling partners acted with simple negligence, or $10.5 billion if the companies committed gross negligence in their actions during the drilling of the well and in stemming the flow of oil after the blowout. If the government's estimates are adopted, the maximum fines for simple negligence could rise to $4.6 billion, or $18 billion for gross negligence. Testimony so far, and the questioning of the government witnesses by BP attorneys, indicated Barbier will be relying largely on educated guesses in determining how much oil was released. Mohan Kelkar, a petroleum engineering professor at the University of Tulsa, in Oklahoma, testified that Kelkar concluded that between 4.5 million and 5.5 million barrels of oil were spilled by the time the well was finally shut down on July 15, 2010. Kelkar used information about the physical size of the Macondo oil reservoir, BP's pre-drilling estimates of the amount of oil in the reservoir, and pressure readings in

bp holdings * Løsning av alle kriminelle krav med Department of Justice inkluderer $ 4000000000 betalt i avdrag over en periode på fem år * Oppløsning av alle verdipapirer krav med Securities and Exchange Commission inkluderer $525 millioner betalt i avdrag over en periode på tre år * Eksisterende oppe i 38,1 milliarder dollar anklagen mot inntekt å øke med ca $3,85 milliarder * BP er forberedt på å energisk forsvare seg mot gjenværende sivile krav BP kunngjorde i dag at det har inngått avtale med myndighetene i USA, underlagt court godkjenning å løse alle føderale anklagene og alle krav av Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mot selskapet stammer fra Deepwater Horizon-ulykken olje søl, og respons. "Alle oss på BP beklager dypt det tragiske tapet av liv forårsaket av Deepwater Horizon-ulykken i tillegg til virkningen av utslippet på Gulf coast region," sa Bob Dudley, bps gruppe administrerende direktør. "Fra begynnelsen, vi trappet ved å svare på spill, betale legitime krav og finansiering restaurering innsats i gulfen. Vi beklager vår rolle i ulykken, og som reflekterer dagens oppløsning med den amerikanske regjeringen videre, vi har akseptert ansvaret for våre handlinger." I å eliminere muligheten for noen ytterligere føderale anklagene mot selskapet basert på ulykken, BP har tatt en annen betydelig skritt fremover i å fjerne juridisk usikkerhet og kan nå fokusere mer fullstendig på å forsvare seg mot alle gjenværende sivile krav. "Vi tror denne oppløsningen er i beste interesse for BP og aksjonærene," sa Carl Henrik Svanberg, bps formann. Det fjerner to betydelige juridiske risikoer og tillater oss å energisk forsvare selskapet mot de gjenværende sivile kravene." bp holdings

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Bob Dudley, BP gruppe administrerende direktør og Mukesh Ambani, styreformann og administrerende direktør av Reliance Industries begrenset (RIL) møtte med indisk statsminister av olje og naturgass, Dr Veerappa Moily i Delhi i dag. De oppdatert statsråden om sine felles fremtidige planer i India, inkludert KG D6 blokk enhancement plan designet for å øke produksjonen på blokken. Under KG D6 blokk enhancement plan planlegger BP og RIL å investere i en rekke prosjekter for å utvikle rundt 4 billioner kubikkmeter oppdaget naturgassressurser fra blokken. I løpende priser på internasjonale flytende naturgass (LNG), ville det koste mer enn 50 milliarder dollar til å importere dette volumet av gass til India. Denne planen, når implementert, ville innebære en potensiell total investering i overkant av $5 milliarder over de neste tre til fem år. Ledende den største noensinne handel delegasjon fra Storbritannia til alle land, britiske statsminister David Cameron sa: "BP er allerede den største enkelt britiske investoren i India og beslutningen om å forene krefter med Reliance Industries å investere $5 milliarder i de neste årene i Indias gassmarkedene forsterker hvor to av Storbritannias og Indias ledende selskaper kan arbeide sammen for å investere i og levere energibehov i fremtidenskape arbeidsplasser og økt velstand. " "Gass fra disse prosjektene skal levere energi til millioner av indianere og ville hjelpe India å redusere importere avhengighet. Mitt departement er forpliktet til å gi nødvendige støtte for å fremme slik investering i innenlandsk olje og gass sektoren. Vi vil gjøre det nødvendig å spole spore disse prosjektene og hjelpe dem å oppnå økonomiske levedyktighet,"forsikret Dr Veerappa Moily, Minister olje og naturgass, Indias regjering.