corporate frauds

Though fraud is not explicitly defined in the existing Companies Act there are offences in IPC which include aspects relating to fraud. Frauds of various types like falsification of financial statements through overstatement of assets/ understatement of liabilities, diversion of funds in Project financing, over/under invoicing and capital market, including criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of funds/assets etc. under the IPC have been reported by the SFIO in vari.. Full Article

Since 2006, the Ministry has implemented MCA-21, an e- Governance project, bringing greater transparency as the data available in the public domain can be viewed by any person. The Ministry has also evolved System to help in detecting likely fraud at an early state. In the process of development of Early Warning System (EWS), the Ministry has identified certain Risk Parameters which can be run on the data available with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, on financial sta.. Full Article

The Minister of Corporate Affairs has informed the Lok Sabha that during the period from 01/04/2007 to 31/7/2010, investigations into the affairs of 44 companies have been referred by the Ministry to Serious Fraud Investigation Office. Giving this information in written reply to a question Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Corporate Affairs, Full Article

The Government has said that no verified information is available which indicates that the cases of corporate frauds are constantly increasing in the corporate sector in the country. However, an elaborate regulatory framework is already in place under the Companies Act, 1956 as well as the regulations of other agencies like Securities andExchange Board of India, Enforcement Directorate, Central Bureau of Investigation, etc. to deal with corporate frauds. Full Article

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has established Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) to act as the capacity building support for the officers / officials of the Ministry on issues relating to effective corporate functioning and regulation. The Institute can also design and deliver training programmes on such areas relating to corporate laws and regulations on specific requests from concerned Ministry / Department / Organisation. Giving this information in the R.. Full Article

These alerts relate to related party transactions, non-payment of deposits, etc. In reply to an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha today, Minister of Corporate Affairs, Shri Salman Khurshid said that the Registrars of Companies and the regional directorates, have also been involved in this exercise. He also informed the House that strengthening of MCA-21 System is an on-going exercise and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs takes steps on regular basis to update and modif.. Full Article

No.2/2/2007Admn.  dated the 5 th May 2009  SFIO, Government of India, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Serious Fraud Investigation Office, B3 Wing, 2 nd Floor, Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi – 110 003, New Delhi,  SFIO, a multidisciplinary organization set up to investigate corporate frauds, intends to outsource experts in the field of Banking, Law, Forensic Audit [...] Full Article

The Big Four accounting firms are reputed to have strong process controls. How then could one such firm have failed to detect such a multi-year scam as is getting unravelled in Satyam? “There is a co-relation between the size of audit firms and the size of companies, and hence all large corporate frauds involve big [...] Full Article