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"claim": "The Adani Group chairman said in September 2025 that SEBI had reaffirmed the Hindenburg claims were baseless.",
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"topic": "Disclosure",
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"claim": "The US Justice Department and the UK Serious Fraud Office said in January 2020 that Airbus used third-party business partners and agents to bribe officials and customers to win contracts.",
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"topic": "Bribery",
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"topic": "Fraud",
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"claim": "The SEC alleged in April 2022 that Bill Hwang entered into total return swaps with no economic purpose other than to drive up the prices of the underlying stocks.",
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"industry": "Investment holding",
"claim": "News reports in November 2024 said Bill Hwang was sent to prison for 18 years for the Archegos fraud.",
"label": "Outdated",
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"topic": "Fraud",
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"claim": "News24 reported in September 2022 that National Treasury restricted Bain & Company from public sector contracts until 4 September 2032 for corrupt and fraudulent practices tied to a SARS contract.",
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"topic": "Corporate status",
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"topic": "Bribery",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/credit-suisse-doj-resolution/"
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"claim": "The DOJ said the Mozambique project contractor paid about US$50 million in kickbacks to bankers at Credit Suisse's UK unit.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Bribery",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/credit-suisse-banker-kickbacks/"
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"organization": "Credit Suisse Group AG",
"country": "Switzerland",
"industry": "Banking",
"claim": "Credit Suisse settled the Republic of Mozambique's London claim over the loans on the eve of trial.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Fraud",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/credit-suisse-mozambique-settlement/"
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"organization": "Credit Suisse Group AG",
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"claim": "The October 2021 DOJ release presented Credit Suisse Group AG as the parent bank that entered the Mozambique deferred prosecution agreement.",
"label": "Outdated",
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"topic": "Corporate status",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/credit-suisse-group-dpa-party/"
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"country": "Denmark",
"industry": "Banking",
"claim": "An October 2018 Al Jazeera report said some EUR 200 billion in suspicious transactions passed through Danske Bank's Estonian branch.",
"label": "Partly supported",
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"topic": "Money laundering",
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"procedural_status": "No authority has fixed a laundered or suspicious total. US and Danish resolutions were concluded on 13 December 2022 and US probation ended on 13 December 2025.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/danske-bank-eur200bn-suspicious/"
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"country": "Denmark",
"industry": "Banking",
"claim": "The US Department of Justice said on 13 December 2022 that Danske Bank pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and agreed to forfeit US$2.059 billion.",
"label": "Supported",
"evidence_score": 98,
"topic": "Fraud",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/danske-bank-us-guilty-plea/"
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"country": "Denmark",
"industry": "Banking",
"claim": "Danske Bank announced in December 2022 that its US resolution placed it under a period of DOJ corporate probation as part of the Estonia matter.",
"label": "Outdated",
"evidence_score": 79,
"topic": "Corporate status",
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"origin_title": "Danske Bank reaches coordinated resolutions with the US and Danish authorities regarding the Estonia matter",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/danske-bank-probation-ongoing/"
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"organization_id": "eni",
"organization": "Eni S.p.A.",
"country": "Italy",
"industry": "Energy",
"claim": "The proposition that Eni and Shell were proven to have paid bribes to Nigerian politicians through the US$1.1 billion OPL 245 payment, as alleged by the Milan prosecutor and summarised by Global Witness in March 2021.",
"label": "Contradicted",
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"topic": "Bribery",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/eni-opl245-bribes-proven/"
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"country": "Italy",
"industry": "Energy",
"claim": "Global Witness said in March 2021 that two middlemen had already been found guilty for their role in the OPL 245 deal in a separate trial.",
"label": "Outdated",
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"topic": "Bribery",
"origin_publisher": "Global Witness",
"origin_title": "Acquittal of Shell and Eni in corruption trial “a stain on Italy”",
"origin_date": "17 March 2021",
"origin_url": "https://globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/acquittal-of-shell-and-eni-in-corruption-trial-a-stain-on-italy",
"procedural_status": "Sentences of September 2018 overturned by an Italian appeal court on a date we could not confirm from a read record.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/eni-middlemen-guilty/"
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"claim_id": "eni-acquittal-final",
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"country": "Italy",
"industry": "Energy",
"claim": "Eni said on 19 July 2022 that the OPL 245 criminal case had ended and that the March 2021 acquittals of Eni and its managers were full and final.",
"label": "Supported",
"evidence_score": 81,
"topic": "Corporate status",
"origin_publisher": "Eni",
"origin_title": "Eni: unmotivated and disconcerting Nigeria judicial case ended",
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"procedural_status": "Criminal acquittal final after the appeal was dropped, announced 19 July 2022. Nigeria's civil claims in Italy to be waived per a November 2023 letter reported by Bloomberg. All OPL 245 claims between Nigeria and Eni settled per Eni's statement of 5 March 2026.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/eni-acquittal-final/"
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"organization": "Eni S.p.A.",
"country": "Italy",
"industry": "Energy",
"claim": "Eni said in March 2021 that the allegations of international corruption in its Congo probe ceased to exist after the charge was reduced to undue inducement, and that its EUR 11.8 million deal was not an admission of guilt.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Bribery",
"origin_publisher": "Eni",
"origin_title": "Eni: Congo investigation, the company adheres to the hypothesis of agreed sanctions submitted by the Public Prosecutor",
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"origin_url": "https://eni.com/en-IT/media/press-release/2021/03/eni-congo-investigation-sanctions-submitted-public-prosecutor.html",
"procedural_status": "Agreed sanction of EUR 11.8 million accepted by a Milan judge in March 2021 on a reduced charge of undue inducement. Closed.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/eni-congo-no-corruption/"
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"country": "United States",
"industry": "Energy",
"claim": "A May 2006 DOJ release said a federal jury convicted former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling on 19 of the 28 counts he faced, covering conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading and false statements to auditors.",
"label": "Supported",
"evidence_score": 96,
"topic": "Fraud",
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"origin_title": "Federal Jury Convicts Former Enron Chief Executives Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling On Fraud, Conspiracy And Related Charges",
"origin_date": "25 May 2006",
"origin_url": "https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/May/06_crm_328.html",
"procedural_status": "Convicted by jury on 25 May 2006. Sentenced to 24 years and four months on 23 October 2006. Resentenced to 168 months on 21 June 2013. Released from federal custody on 21 February 2019. Final.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/enron-skilling-conviction/"
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"claim_id": "enron-lay-conviction-abated",
"organization_id": "enron",
"organization": "Enron Corporation",
"country": "United States",
"industry": "Energy",
"claim": "A May 2006 DOJ release said a federal jury convicted Enron founder Kenneth Lay on all six counts he faced at the Houston trial.",
"label": "Outdated",
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"topic": "Fraud",
"origin_publisher": "US Department of Justice",
"origin_title": "Federal Jury Convicts Former Enron Chief Executives Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling On Fraud, Conspiracy And Related Charges",
"origin_date": "25 May 2006",
"origin_url": "https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/May/06_crm_328.html",
"procedural_status": "Jury verdict on 25 May 2006. Lay died on 5 July 2006. Conviction vacated and indictment dismissed on 17 October 2006. Final.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/enron-lay-conviction-abated/"
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"organization": "Enron Corporation",
"country": "United States",
"industry": "Energy",
"claim": "The Supreme Court held in Skilling v. United States, decided 24 June 2010, that the honest-services fraud statute reaches only bribery and kickback schemes and that Skilling's conduct fell outside it.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Fraud",
"origin_publisher": "Supreme Court of the United States",
"origin_title": "Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358 (No. 08-1394)",
"origin_date": "24 June 2010",
"origin_url": "https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/561/358/",
"procedural_status": "Decided on 24 June 2010, affirmed in part, vacated in part and remanded. On remand the convictions stood and Skilling was resentenced to 168 months on 21 June 2013. Final.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/enron-honest-services/"
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"claim_id": "enron-sec-lay-charges",
"organization_id": "enron",
"organization": "Enron Corporation",
"country": "United States",
"industry": "Energy",
"claim": "The SEC said on 8 July 2004 that Kenneth Lay took part in a scheme to defraud and sold more than US$90 million of Enron stock on inside information.",
"label": "Unresolved",
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"topic": "Disclosure",
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"origin_title": "SEC Charges Kenneth L. Lay, Enron's Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, with Fraud and Insider Trading",
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"origin_url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2004-94.htm",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/enron-sec-lay-charges/"
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"claim_id": "ey-germany-apas-violations",
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"organization": "Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft",
"country": "Germany",
"industry": "Audit and accounting",
"claim": "Reports in April 2023 said the German audit oversight body APAS found professional duty violations in EY's Wirecard audits and barred it for two years from new listed audit clients.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Accounting",
"origin_publisher": "Financial Times",
"origin_title": "German audit watchdog bans EY over Wirecard work",
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"origin_url": "https://irishtimes.com/business/2023/04/03/german-audit-watchdog-bans-ey-over-wirecard-work",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/ey-germany-apas-violations/"
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"organization": "Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft",
"country": "Germany",
"industry": "Audit and accounting",
"claim": "EY said in June 2020 that there were clear indications of an elaborate and sophisticated fraud at Wirecard aimed at deliberate deception, presenting itself as deceived.",
"label": "Partly supported",
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"topic": "Fraud",
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"origin_title": "Accused of 'elaborate fraud', Wirecard files for insolvency",
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"procedural_status": "Company statement of 25 June 2020. APAS sanctions of April 2023 accepted without appeal in March 2024.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/ey-germany-sophisticated-fraud/"
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"organization": "Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft",
"country": "Germany",
"industry": "Audit and accounting",
"claim": "Thousands of Wirecard investors claimed in a KapMuG model case that EY is liable to them for its unqualified audit certificates for fiscal years 2014 to 2018.",
"label": "Unresolved",
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"topic": "Accounting",
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"origin_title": "Teil-Musterentscheid im Wirecard-KapMuG-Verfahren vom 28. Februar 2025",
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"procedural_status": "Partial model decision of the Bavarian Supreme Court of 28 February 2025, upheld by the Federal Court of Justice as reported on 23 October 2026. Model case against EY ended. Individual damages suits pending as of October 2026.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/ey-germany-investor-liability/"
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"organization": "Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.",
"country": "Japan",
"industry": "Retail",
"claim": "US Customs and Border Protection blocked a shipment of Uniqlo shirts at the Port of Los Angeles in January 2021 and ruled on 10 May 2021 that the company had not shown the shirts were free of forced labour.",
"label": "Supported",
"evidence_score": 63,
"topic": "Product claims",
"origin_publisher": "Bloomberg",
"origin_title": "U.S. Blocked Uniqlo Shirts on Xinjiang Forced-Labor Concerns",
"origin_date": "May 2021",
"origin_url": "https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/u-s-blocked-uniqlo-shirts-on-xinjiang-forced-labor-concerns",
"procedural_status": "Detention in January 2021 and CBP ruling dated 10 May 2021 upholding it. No later court challenge was found.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/fast-retailing-cbp-ruling/"
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"organization_id": "fast-retailing",
"organization": "Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.",
"country": "Japan",
"industry": "Retail",
"claim": "Fast Retailing said in July 2021 that none of its production partners were in Xinjiang and in May 2023 that there is no forced labour in its supply chains.",
"label": "Unresolved",
"evidence_score": 44,
"topic": "Product claims",
"origin_publisher": "Business and Human Rights Resource Centre",
"origin_title": "France: NGOs ask investigating judge to open judicial investigation to clarify responsibilities of multinational garment companies allegedly profiting from Uyghurs forced labour",
"origin_date": "17 May 2023",
"origin_url": "https://www.bhrrc.org/tr/en-son-haberler/france-investigating-judge-to-examine-connection-between-fashion-groups-and-uyghur-forced-labour/",
"procedural_status": "Company statements of 2 July 2021 and 17 May 2023. CBP ruling of 10 May 2021 on documents. French complaint of May 2023 ended in a refusal to investigate, confirmed on appeal in February 2025, without a ruling on the facts.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/fast-retailing-no-forced-labour/"
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"organization_id": "fast-retailing",
"organization": "Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.",
"country": "Japan",
"industry": "Retail",
"claim": "Reuters reported in July 2021 that French prosecutors had opened an investigation into Uniqlo France and three other retailers over suspected concealment of crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.",
"label": "Outdated",
"evidence_score": 71,
"topic": "Corporate status",
"origin_publisher": "Reuters",
"origin_title": "France probes fashion retailers for concealing 'crimes against humanity' in Xinjiang",
"origin_date": "2 July 2021",
"origin_url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/reu20210702KCN2E75HL/",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/fast-retailing-french-probe/"
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"claim_id": "ftx-customer-assets-safe",
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"organization": "FTX Trading Ltd.",
"country": "Bahamas",
"industry": "Crypto assets",
"claim": "Before its collapse, FTX's founder told customers, investors and the public that FTX customer deposits were kept safe, held in custody and kept separate from company assets, according to DOJ.",
"label": "Contradicted",
"evidence_score": 96,
"topic": "Fraud",
"origin_publisher": "US Department of Justice",
"origin_title": "Samuel Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years for His Orchestration of Multiple Fraudulent Schemes",
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"origin_url": "https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/samuel-bankman-fried-sentenced-25-years-his-orchestration-multiple-fraudulent-schemes",
"procedural_status": "Founder convicted after trial on 2 November 2023 and sentenced on 28 March 2024. Conviction affirmed by the Second Circuit on 12 June 2026 (No. 24-961). Certiorari petition No. 26-349 pending at the US Supreme Court as of October 2026.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/ftx-customer-assets-safe/"
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"organization": "FTX Trading Ltd.",
"country": "Bahamas",
"industry": "Crypto assets",
"claim": "FTX's founder was convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison, and the conviction was upheld on appeal in June 2026.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Fraud",
"origin_publisher": "Bloomberg Law",
"origin_title": "Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal of Conviction for FTX Fraud (1)",
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"origin_url": "https://news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-and-criminal-law/sam-bankman-fried-loses-appeal-of-fraud-conviction",
"procedural_status": "Convicted after jury trial on 2 November 2023, sentenced 28 March 2024. Affirmed by the Second Circuit on 12 June 2026. Supreme Court petition No. 26-349 pending, response due 16 November 2026.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/ftx-founder-conviction/"
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"country": "Bahamas",
"industry": "Crypto assets",
"claim": "A November 2022 CNN report said customers who trusted FTX may be left with nothing.",
"label": "Outdated",
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"topic": "Corporate status",
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"procedural_status": "Chapter 11 plan in effect. Fourth distribution made on 31 March 2026 and further dates to be announced.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/ftx-customers-left-with-nothing/"
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"organization": "Galleon Group LLC",
"country": "United States",
"industry": "Investment holding",
"claim": "The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York said in October 2011 that Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam was convicted on all 14 counts and sentenced to 11 years in prison for insider trading.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Market conduct",
"origin_publisher": "US Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York",
"origin_title": "Galleon Management Founder Raj Rajaratnam Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 11 Years in Prison for Insider Trading",
"origin_date": "13 October 2011",
"origin_url": "https://justice.gov/archive/usao/nys/pressreleases/October11/rajaratnamrajsentencingpr.pdf",
"procedural_status": "Convicted by jury on 11 May 2011, sentenced on 13 October 2011, conviction affirmed by the Second Circuit on 24 June 2013, final.",
"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/galleon-conviction-11-years/"
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"organization": "Galleon Group LLC",
"country": "United States",
"industry": "Investment holding",
"claim": "The SEC said in November 2011 that a federal court ordered Raj Rajaratnam to pay a US$92.8 million civil penalty in its insider trading case.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Market conduct",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/pwc-zhongtian-condoned-fraud/"
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/privinvest-chang-conviction/"
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"topic": "Fraud",
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"origin_title": "Salesman cleared in $2-billion Mozambican scam in blow to U.S.",
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"topic": "Fraud",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/stanford-financial-sec-ponzi/"
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"claim": "The SEC said in March 2018 that Theranos, its CEO and its former president carried out a massive fraud, and that the company was liable for it.",
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"claim": "Courthouse News reported in May 2025 that the Ninth Circuit denied the former Theranos chief executive's request for en banc rehearing after upholding her conviction in February.",
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"topic": "Fraud",
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"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Corporate status",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/theranos-shutting-down/"
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"claim": "The Monetary Authority of Singapore said it issued nine-year prohibition orders against Three Arrows Capital directors Zhu Su and Kyle Livingston Davies that took effect on 13 September 2023.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Market conduct",
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"industry": "Crypto assets",
"claim": "A US bankruptcy court opinion recorded that the British Virgin Islands court ordered Three Arrows Capital into liquidation on 27 June 2022 and appointed joint liquidators, and that the US court recognised the BVI proceeding as a foreign main proceeding.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Corporate status",
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"organization": "Three Arrows Capital Ltd",
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"industry": "Crypto assets",
"claim": "The Monetary Authority of Singapore said it reprimanded Three Arrows Capital Pte. Ltd. in June 2022 for providing false information to MAS and for exceeding the assets under management threshold for a registered fund management company.",
"label": "Supported",
"evidence_score": 91,
"topic": "Disclosure",
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"origin_title": "MAS Reprimands Three Arrows Capital for Providing False Information and Exceeding Assets Under Management Threshold",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/three-arrows-capital-mas-reprimand/"
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"claim": "Liquidator Teneo said a Singapore court sentenced co-founder Su Zhu to four months in prison for failing to comply with a court order to help the investigation into the fund's failure.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Corporate status",
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"origin_title": "Crypto fund co-founder arrested, jailed in Singapore, says company liquidator",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/three-arrows-capital-su-zhu-committal/"
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"claim_id": "toshiba-committee-figure",
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"claim": "Press reports in July 2015 said an independent committee found Toshiba had overstated profits by JPY 151.8 billion between 2008 and 2014.",
"label": "Outdated",
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"topic": "Accounting",
"origin_publisher": "The Christian Science Monitor",
"origin_title": "How did Toshiba get away with padding profits for 6 years?",
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"claim": "Japan's Financial Services Agency ordered Toshiba in December 2015 to pay an administrative penalty of more than JPY 7.3 billion for false statements in its securities reports.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Accounting",
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"origin_url": "https://www.fsa.go.jp/en/newsletter/weekly2016/177.html",
"procedural_status": "Administrative monetary penalty order issued on 24 December 2015. Final.",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/toshiba-fsa-penalty/"
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"claim": "Toshiba said on its delisting in December 2023 that it would take a major step toward a new future with a new shareholder.",
"label": "Opinion",
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"topic": "Corporate status",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/toshiba-new-future/"
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"industry": "Commodity trading",
"claim": "The US Department of Justice said in March 2024 that Trafigura pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA over bribes to Brazilian officials and would pay over US$126 million.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Bribery",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/trafigura-us-brazil-plea/"
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"industry": "Commodity trading",
"claim": "A January 2025 Bloomberg report carried by swissinfo said Trafigura was convicted of bribery by a Swiss court over payments to an Angolan official.",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/trafigura-swiss-angola-conviction/"
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"organization": "Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd.",
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"industry": "Commodity trading",
"claim": "Trafigura says on its Probo Koala page that neither deaths, nor miscarriages or serious illnesses could have been caused by the slops dumped in Abidjan in 2006.",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/trafigura-probo-koala-no-deaths/"
},
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"organization": "Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd.",
"country": "Singapore",
"industry": "Commodity trading",
"claim": "Trafigura describes its July 2010 Dutch fine of EUR 1 million as a ruling on a technical breach of the provisions for exporting waste from the European Union.",
"label": "Partly supported",
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"topic": "Safety",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/trafigura-dutch-technical-breach/"
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"claim": "Vale misled investors about dam safety by relying on fraudulent stability certificates and stating that all its dams were certified stable, as the SEC charged in April 2022.",
"label": "Partly supported",
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"topic": "Disclosure",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/vale-misled-investors/"
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"claim": "Brazilian federal prosecutors charged that Vale and TUV SUD colluded to issue false stability declarations for the Brumadinho dam, and that 16 people committed qualified homicide.",
"label": "Unresolved",
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"topic": "Safety",
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"claim": "Vale said in March 2023 that it would pay US$55.9 million to the SEC without admitting or denying the settled claims.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Disclosure",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/vale-no-admission/"
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"topic": "Safety",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/vale-global-settlement/"
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"claim": "The US Department of Justice said on 18 February 2016 that VimpelCom and Unitel would pay more than US$795 million in US and Dutch penalties over bribes paid in Uzbekistan.",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
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"topic": "Corporate status",
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"claim": "VEON said in September 2023 that it had not been targeted by US, EU or UK sanctions at any point since February 2022.",
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"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/veon-not-sanctioned/"
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"claim": "The US EPA alleged in a notice of violation dated 18 September 2015 that Volkswagen installed software in model year 2009 to 2015 2.0 liter diesel cars to defeat emissions controls.",
"label": "Supported",
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"topic": "Product claims",
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"reviewed": "25 October 2026",
"url": "https://recordlens.org/claims/volkswagen-defeat-device/"
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"claim": "Volkswagen AG said in November 2015 that no software had been installed in its 3.0 liter V6 diesel engines to alter emissions in a forbidden manner.",
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"topic": "Product claims",
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"origin_title": "Wirecard: Verteidigung blitzt mit Aussetzung ab",
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"origin_title": "Commerce Department Lifts Ban After ZTE Deposits Final Tranche of $1.4 Billion Penalty",
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"topic": "Corporate status",
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