Governing body of English cricket faces a $3.5 million (£2.15 million) legal claim threat from the receivers of Allen Stanford's collapsed business empire... more
US diplomats expressed concern about business dealings of Allen Stanford three years before the collapse of his financial empire amid allegations of fraud, according to WikiLeaks... more
Accountancy group Vantis may itself face corporate restructuring or insolvency after its board flagged up uncertainty that the firm can continue trading... more
What a strange contradiction Tory MEP Struan Stevenson is. On the one hand he has visited Kazakhstan on no fewer than 10 separate occasions to investigate the effects of Soviet-era nuclear explosions on the inhabitants there... ... more
In launching his putsch on the Financial Services Authority and overhaul of City regulation, George Osborne paid tribute to Sir James Sassoon as the Shadow Chancellor’s adviser. This is most odd... ... more
London's hedge fund community may have had a torrid time last year but at least its favoured charity, Arki Busson's ARK (or absolute return for kids), has shown the way in moneymaking. In the year to August 2008, its income rose from £32.7 million to £40.2 million. Furthermore, hedge fund turmoil is not expected to affect the levels of pledges. ARK acknowledges that "the level of outstanding donor pledges is considered to be one of the charity's key risks" but that all funding pledges "due for payment have been received to date." So hats off to the generous hedgies and let's hope that spirit continues.... more
Assets worth $100 million (£60.2 million) have been frozen in London as part of the $7 billion fraud case against Allen Stanford, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) revealed... more
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford is to appear in a federal court in Virginia over allegations of massive fraud involving his Antigua bank, after he surrendered to the FBI... more
Sir Allen Stanford, the former cricket-backing financier accused of an $8 billion (£5.4 billion) fraud, tried to turn himself in late last night but was refused because there is no warrant for his arrest ... more
Red flags aplenty were missed by regulators on Stanford International. A picture is emerging of a firm where employees were bound by a mix of family ties, religious faith and an over-dominant chief executive - signs, surely, of a wrong 'un waiting to happen... more
A US judge has released about $500 million (£356.6 million) from accounts held by customers of the Stanford Group hit by a suspected massive fraud... more
Scandal: Antigua and Barbuda's Senate is expected to approve a government move to seize land owned by Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, accused in an $8 billion securities fraud... more
Scandal: Allen Stanford has millions of dollars worth of assets on the Caribbean island of St. Croix, but US regulators have not seized any in their probe of the Texas billionaire, a US Marshal said... more
Sir Allen Stanford's alleged investment fraud may have been devised far from New York, in balmy Antigua and Houston, but its repercussions were quickly felt on Wall Street. ... more
The revelation that train fares in Britain are 50 per cent more expensive than in the rest of Europe can only exasperate passengers whose New Year increases of six per cent for peak-time fares greatly exceeded inflation... more
Cricket: Sir Allen Stanford's public humiliation is a serious blow to the credibility of the England Cricket Board, and particularly to their newly re-elected chairman Giles Clarke... more
David Mellor asks whether Arsenal should call time on Arsene Wenger, calls Sunderland pathetic, calls on the FA to ban Joey Barton, and fires a sot at the Standford circus and incompetent football referees... more
Poor Allen Stanford's bad week is getting worse by the minute. Most of the matches at his private stadium have been flops because the substandard pitches are inappropriate for Twenty20 cricket and the crowds have been poor. ... more
Kevin Pietersen's verdict on Twenty20 is "silly shots for a silly game" and he's surely right, though if he trousers $1million for Saturday night's work, he will at least have seen some serious financial reward for prostituting his skills... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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