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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

Business owners take all possible steps to ensure customer satisfaction. One of the most successful and recommended strategies in this regard is to begin with a virtual receptionist service. This service brings in extra representatives for a business and eases the lives of the customers. When the customers have questions or queries to be answered or any problems to be solved, they try to reach the authoritative body telephonically and it is not uncommon for them for not having to been able to do so. This is where the need for virtual receptionists comes in. Virtual receptionists are basically persons who work for the customer support but do not work from the office or any specified location.

http://jazonmert.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/the-irs-wants-to-shrink-payments-to-tax-fraud-whistleblowers-bp-spain-holdings-madrid-articles/ FORTUNE -- Hoping to win millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service for exposing tax fraud? It's going to get even tougher -- and some powerful people in Washington are not amused. In January, Sen. Charles Grassley, the 79-year-old Iowa Republican, chastised acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller over his recent proposal to restrict the agency's whistleblower program, already an object of criticism since its creation in 2006. The proposed curbs, Grassley wrote in a letter to Miller, showed one thing: that the IRS and its boss, the Treasury Department, "view whistleblowers with hostility." What exactly is at issue? The current whistleblower rules say a tipster can collect a reward of 15%-30% of proceeds brought in as a direct result of a tip. The dirt has to involve tax evasion of at least $2 million or tax fraud by an individual making at least $200,000 a year. Miller's proposed restrictions will likely shrink payouts. Among the curbs: making it nearly impossible for whistleblowers to share in rewards stemming from a company's inflation of losses, and excluding from rewards any money brought in from so-called Fbar fines. These draconian fines, levied on offshore tax evaders, are often dozens and even hundreds of times the amount of actual back-tax an evader must pay. MORE: 3 things Jamie Dimon might have meant when he said he was 'richer than you' But here's the rub in this unusual political fight: Even in its current structure, very few whistleblower claims get paid, thanks to bureaucratic foot-dragging at the IRS, according to lawyers representing whistleblowers. Despite receiving more than 1,960 claims since 2006, the IRS made its first payment only in 2011. In total, it has paid only three claims. The biggest: $104 million to convicted felon Bradley Birkenfeld, the former UBS AG private banker who kick-started the

(Reuters) - Spain's prime minister published his tax returns on Saturday in a bid to quell reports he and other conservative politicians received secret cash payments but the opposition said many questions remain unanswered. The government's website posted tax authority documents detailing Mariano Rajoy's income and tax payments from the past ten years. His ruling People's Party (PP) also revealed four years of financial accounts on Friday, in another attempt to put the matter to rest. The scandal, centered on ledgers supposedly made by a former party treasurer, have cut support for the PP to the lowest level on record and pushed up borrowing costs just as it seemed Spain was getting to grips with a financial crisis that had raised questions about the future of the euro zone. Former PP treasurer Luis Barcenas has described as fake handwritten ledger entries published on January 31 by El Pais newspaper purporting to show payments funded by construction firms made to PP leaders including Rajoy. Rajoy has said the payments were not made and that the party is organizing an external audit into the affair. The opposition Socialists said the published accounts of Rajoy and the PP did nothing to explain the Barcenas papers. Socialist spokeswoman Soraya Rodriguez said Spaniards wanted more than Rajoy's tax records. "Spaniards are fed up of waiting for answers that never come," she told journalists in Valladolid on Saturday. Cayo Lara of the United Left party said the publication of the accounts was meaningless as members of parliament have to declare their assets in any case. The tax returns do not cover the first half of the period of entries in the ledgers published by El Pais, which run from 1990 to 2009.

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TNK-BP announces that all of its Russian retail assets have been consolidated within the TNK-BP Holding group of companies. In a transaction between a subsidiary of TNK-BP Holding and STBP Holdings Ltd., the TNK-BP Holding group has consolidated retail business of STBP Holdings Ltd. within Moscow city limits and the Moscow region. The transaction was valued at approximately USD 1.1 bn by an independent appraiser, S&G Partners. With the deal closed, TNK-BP Holding owns 733 retail sites across Russia under BP and TNK brands. "Complete consolidation of Russian retail assets within a Russian company makes for a crucial step in the implementation of TNK-BP's strategy for greater transparency and efficiency of its business; moreover, it is a key prerequisite for its ongoing successful development", - says Jonathan Muir, Chief Financial Officer, TNK-BP. Background for Editors: OJSC TNK-BP Holding is an open joint-stock company established in November 2004, registered and operating in Russia. TNK-BP Holding owns the majority of Russian assets of TNK-BP. Minority shareholders own c. 5% in OJSC TNK-BP Holding; indicative quotations for company shares are posted on the RTS Board information system (TNBPI.RTS). TNK-BP is Russia's third largest oil company, 50% held by BP and 50% held by the AAR Consortium (Alfa Group, Access Industries, and Renova). TNK-BP also owns close to 50% of another Russian oil and gas company, Slavneft. TNK-BP accounts for approximately 16% of Russia's production (including its share of Slavneft). SEC proved reserves (life of field basis) were 8.586 billion boe as of December 31, 2009. STBP Holdings Ltd. is a subsidiary of TNK-BP International Ltd. References to "TNK-BP" mean "TNK-BP International and the company's consolidated subsidiaries" unless the context requires otherwise. References to "TNK-BP Holding group" mean "OJSC TNK-BP Holding and the company's consolidated subsidiaries" unless the context requires

Swiss bank UBS's German subsidiary is under investigation by local prosecutors for purportedly abetting tax fraud. Bank employers allegedly helped investors to hide money pass revenue departments' authorities by transferring it to Switzerland, says Peter Lintz. Reported the investigation on November 8, 2012, Stuttgarter Nachrichten said illegal fund transfers reached well into 2012, money was being moved invisibly via an internal clearing account at UBS's German branch into Switzerland. Source not specified by the paper. Electronic data and other hundreds of thousands materials that were confiscated in UBS's Frankfurt offices that were raided in May are currently being analyzed by Mannheim prosecutors. The legal inquiries were intended for unknown representatives of UBS's German division. Some of the bank's customers are also among targets, added Lintz. As a result Swiss banks have been subject to investigations into tax evasion in the United States and Europe, throwing Swiss banking secrecy, enshrined in the republic's laws and traditions, into jeopardy. Bank refuses to comment about the issue rather late Wednesday of the same year they emailed a statement trough a spokeswoman stating that the bank is already "cooperating with authorities" but denies to comment on ongoing legal procedures. A number of French offices of UBS were searched as part of a probe into alleged aiding of tax evasion earlier this year. In some other issues involving UBS, they deny media reports telling wealthy Germans to move funds to Singapore and other money centers ahead of a Swiss tax deal due to come into force in January. Since 2009, UBS has closely examined "framework conditions" for business with over 60 countries including Germany and taken steps to adjust or improve the rules wherever necessary, the spokeswoman said.

bp spain holdings, barcelona madrid news Jos olet yksi niistä ihmisistä, jotka ovat sekoittaa huolimattomuudesta ja veropetosten ero et ole yksin, monet ovat näiden kahden levy. Laiminlyönnistä ole asianmukaista huolellisuutta välttää aiheuttaa vahinkoja tai menetyksiä toiselle henkilölle. Mutta huolimattomuudesta vie aikaa osoittaa. on velvollisuus huolehtia huolenpitovelvollisuus olosuhteet toiminnan tai toimimattomuuden olosuhteissa vastaaja ei täyttänyt tavanomaista hoitoa, joka järkevä ihminen pitäisi olosuhteissa (rikkominen) Kantaja on kärsinyt vammoista tai menetyksistä järkevä ihminen olosuhteissa kohtuudella odottaa ennakoivan (vahinko) vahinko johtui rikotaan tulli (syy) Nyt mikä on tulovero petoksia, veropetosten ilmenee, kun yksittäiset, liiketoiminnan tai yrityksen omistajat tarkoituksella tuottaa tietoa niiden veroilmoitukset verovelat määrän rajoittamiseksi. Veropetos on pohjimmiltaan liittyy vääristelemänsä tai salaamansa tiedot veroilmoituksen joudu maksamaan koko vero velvoite. Noudattamatta lakisääteinen väärentäminen tai tiedottamatta jättäminen on vastoin lakia. Väittäen vääriä vähennykset, väittäen henkilökohtaisista kuluista kuin liiketoiminnan kuluja ja ole raportointi tulot ovat esimerkkejä veropetoksia. Onko huolimattomuudesta tai veron petos? Veroprosentti on erittäin monimutkainen aihe, jota monet meistä ei voi helposti ymmärtää. Maallikon aikavälillä huolimattomuus on vain rehellinen virhe. IRS voi yleensä erottaa, jos virhe johtuu huolimattomuudesta tai tahallisesta verolainsäädännön kiertäminen. Veropetosten syntyy, jos: bp spain holdings, barcelona madrid news Liioittelua vapautukset ja vähennykset Asiakirjojen väärentäminen Salaaminen tulojen siirtoa Pitämällä kaksi kirjaa Käyttämällä väärennettyjä henkilötunnuksen Väittäen poikkeus jota ei ole riippuvainen Tahallaan pienemmiksi tuloja Eivät maksa veroja, jotka Taha

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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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