Topic: Crime

Shares of Hong Kong developer Chinese Estates Holdings slid 8 percent in resumed trade on Friday after the company said its chairman and chief executive would face prosecution in a Macau court over alleged bribery and money laundering.

A former regional enforcement director with the Securities and Exchange Commission who allegedly derailed repeated attempts to investigate convicted Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford and then tried to represent Stanford in private practice has been barred from practicing before the Commission for one year, the SEC said.

U.S. authorities are ratcheting up their investigation of residential mortgage-backed securities — the bundles of mortgages that were at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. And they are appealing to the public for help.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Ellen Pao is suing the venture capital firm for sexual harassment and discrimination, according to a lawsuit filed in California's Superior Court.

The illegal wildlife trade could be worth as much as $20 billion worldwide, according to some experts.

Inmates seized control of a privately owned prison in Mississippi on Sunday after riots broke out, and a guard was killed in the chaos in the low security facility, authorities said.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been getting tougher on insider trading on Wall Street, but its potential target may be too wide, The New York Times reports.

The Pentagon said on Friday it believes China spent up to $180 billion on its military buildup last year, a far higher figure than acknowledged by Beijing, and it accused "Chinese actors" of being the world's biggest perpetrators of economic espionage.

Killing animals for profit. It smacks of a National Geographic documentary from the 1970's. But in 2012, it's still happening.

The investigation into the  $300 million art heist from a Boston museum in 1990 has heated up after authorities searched the house of a mob suspect. The Gardner Museum is offering a $5 million reward.

In a nationwide advertising campaign that includes bus shelters, billboards and a website, the FBI is targeting corporate espionage — and encouraging employees of American corporations to be wary of spies in their midst.

How some gangs are moving beyond drugs and street crimes and into financial crimes like mortgage fraud.  

Wynn Macau posted robust growth in the first quarter, helping to boost its parent group Wynn Resorts flagging Las Vegas revenue — underlining the incentive for CEO Steve Wynn to develop his business further in the bustling enclave off China's coast.

Conrad Black is released from prison after serving nearly half of his original six-year sentence for defrauding investors.

Not fit to run a major company. It is a damning judgment on Rupert Murdoch, a threat to his British assets — and a headache for Britain's government.