financial scandal
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Do jail sentences deter future white-collar crimes?
“Jail sentences do not deter future white-collar crimes. What discourages future white-collar criminals is the fear of getting caught, not the length of sentence,” according to an accounting professor. Continue reading
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Four more found guilty in Mount Real investment scandal
Three more individuals linked with the bankrupt Montreal financial group Mount Real Corp. were recently condemned… Continue reading
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Canada’s longest trial again in the news — Chapter III
“The petitioners are the defendants in the longest running judicial saga in Quebec legal history,” so begins Justice Alan Hilton in a ruling. Continue reading
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Canada’s longest trial again in the news
Nearly 15 months after the Quebec Court of Appeal griped about the legal war of attrition that has lasted more than a decade in the case against a former accounting giant and its partners over the infamous collapse of Montreal real-estate firm Castor Holdings Inc., the highest court of the province recently dismissed yet another… Continue reading
Categories: Accounting, Quebec, Quebec Court of Appeal, Quebec Superior Court, Rulings, White-collar crimes