Court cases
Court cases from the first charge or lawsuit to the latest ruling. Every step is dated and linked to the court record or official release.
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Yoon Suk Yeol martial law case
Prosecutors charged Yoon as the ringleader of an insurrection, alleging that he declared unlawful emergency martial law, mobilised the military and police to blockade the...
Najib Razak 1MDB and SRC cases
Prosecutors charged that Najib abused his position and committed criminal breach of trust and money laundering over RM42 million of SRC International funds paid into his ...
Wirecard fraud case
Munich I public prosecutors allege that Braun and others included revenue from third-party acquirer business that did not exist in Wirecard's 2015 to 2018 consolidat...
Cristina Kirchner Vialidad case
Federal prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola charged that during the Kirchner governments 51 federal road works in Santa Cruz province were directed to companies lin...
Mariana dam collapse lawsuits
Hundreds of thousands of claimants, including Brazilian municipalities, individuals, businesses and indigenous and Quilombola community members, alleged in the English Hi...
Post Office Horizon prosecutions
Sub-postmasters who brought group litigation alleged that shortfalls shown by the Horizon accounting system could be caused by bugs, errors and defects in the system, and...
Ericsson bribery case
The US Department of Justice charged that from 2000 to 2016 Ericsson used third party agents and consultants to pay bribes to government officials and kept false books an...
Netanyahu corruption trial
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged that in Case 1000 Netanyahu received gifts such as cigars and champagne from Arnon Milchan and James Packer, in Case 2000 disc...
Duterte ICC case
The ICC Prosecutor alleges that Duterte, as Mayor of Davao City and later as President, is criminally responsible for murders and attempted murders committed as part of a...
US v. Google search case
The US Department of Justice and plaintiff states alleged that Google unlawfully maintained monopolies in search and search advertising through exclusive distribution agr...
Carlos Ghosn and Nissan case
Tokyo prosecutors alleged that Ghosn, Kelly and Nissan under-reported Ghosn's compensation in Nissan's securities filings, which AP put at about 9 billion yen o...
Bob Menendez bribery case
Federal prosecutors alleged that from 2018 to 2022 Senator Menendez and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including cash, gold bars and a conv...
Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes case
The SEC alleged in 2018 that Theranos, Holmes and former president Ramesh Balwani raised more than $700 million through misleading statements about the company's blo...
Harvey Weinstein criminal cases
The Manhattan District Attorney charged Weinstein with offences including first-degree criminal sexual act, rape in the first and third degrees and predatory sexual assau...
Sam Bankman-Fried FTX case
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged that Bankman-Fried defrauded FTX customers and investors and lenders to Alameda Research. The SEC separat...
Glencore bribery case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Glencore entities paid bribes to officials in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Brazil, Venezuela and the Democ...
Johnson & Johnson talc litigation
Tens of thousands of plaintiffs allege in state and federal lawsuits that Johnson & Johnson talc products, including baby powder, caused ovarian cancer or mesotheliom...
Trump New York business records case
The Manhattan District Attorney alleged that Trump falsified New York business records to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from voters around the 2016 e...
Alex Jones Sandy Hook lawsuits
Relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and an FBI agent who responded, alleged that Jones and Free Speech Systems defamed them and inflic...
Mangione prosecutions
UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was shot and killed in Manhattan on December 4, 2024, and Luigi Mangione was arrested five days later in Pennsylvania. He ...
Goldman Sachs 1MDB case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Goldman, through its agents and employees including former employees Tim Leissner and Roger Ng, conspired with others to pay mor...
Le Pen parliamentary assistants case
Prosecutors alleged that from 2004 to 2016 European Parliament allowances meant to pay MEPs' parliamentary assistants were used to pay people who in fact worked for ...
SEC v. Musk Twitter disclosure case
The SEC alleged that Musk failed to file a beneficial ownership report by 24 March 2022 after acquiring more than 5 percent of Twitter's common stock, in violation o...
Uber data breach cover-up case
Federal prosecutors in the Northern District of California charged that Sullivan, while the FTC was investigating Uber's data security, concealed a November 2016 bre...
Boeing 737 MAX fraud charge
The US Department of Justice charged Boeing with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, alleging that two Boeing 737 MAX technical pilots concealed informa...
Berlusconi Ruby ter case
Milan prosecutors accused Berlusconi of corruption in judicial proceedings, alleging that he paid about two dozen people, mostly guests at evenings at his Arcore residenc...
Sarkozy Libyan financing case
The national financial prosecutor's office (PNF) alleged that Sarkozy, with aides Claude Guéant and Brice Hortefeux, entered a corruption pact with Muammar Gaddafi&#...
Fox, Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits
Dominion Voting Systems alleged that Fox News Network and its parent Fox Corporation defamed it by broadcasting false claims after the 2020 US election that its machines ...
Purdue Pharma opioid case
The US Department of Justice charged Purdue with conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and with two counts of conspiracy to...
Binance and Changpeng Zhao case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Binance prioritised growth and profits over compliance with US law, failed to maintain an effective anti-money laundering progra...
Sean Combs federal case
The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York charged Combs in an indictment unsealed on 17 September 2024 with racketeering conspiracy, sex traffic...
FTC privacy order against Meta
The FTC alleged in 2019 that Facebook violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their information. In 2023 the FTC allege...
Kevin Spacey trials
The Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges in May 2022 of sexual offences against three men in London and Gloucestershire between 2005 and 2013, and in November 202...
Steinhoff accounting case
A PwC forensic investigation commissioned by Steinhoff found, as summarised by the company and reported in March 2019, that a senior management executive and a small numb...
Wells Fargo fake accounts case
The CFPB found in 2016, and the Justice Department and SEC stated in 2020, that Wells Fargo employees opened deposit and credit card accounts without customer authorisati...
Danske Bank Estonia case
The US Department of Justice alleged that between 2008 and 2016 Danske Bank, through its Estonian branch, defrauded US banks about its anti-money laundering controls and ...
Giuliani defamation case
Freeman and Moss, former Fulton County, Georgia election workers, alleged that Giuliani defamed them by falsely accusing them of election fraud during the 2020 vote count...
George Santos fraud case
Federal prosecutors alleged in a 23-count superseding indictment that Santos filed false campaign finance reports, charged donors' credit cards without authorisation...
Volkswagen diesel emissions case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Volkswagen installed software in about 590,000 US diesel vehicles that detected emissions testing and reduced emissions controls...
McKinsey opioid case
The Justice Department charged in a criminal information in the Western District of Virginia that McKinsey's US entity conspired with Purdue Pharma and others to aid...
Apple Ireland tax case
The European Commission concluded that two tax rulings issued by Ireland in 1991 and 2007 to Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe constituted state aid t...
Hunter Biden federal cases
Special Counsel David C. Weiss charged that Biden lied about his drug use on a federal firearm purchase form and possessed a gun as a drug user in October 2018, and separ...
Zuma contempt case
The Secretary of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture applied urgently to the Constitutional Court for an order declaring Zuma in contempt...
Partygate privileges inquiry
The House of Commons referred to the Committee of Privileges the question whether Johnson misled the House when he told MPs that Covid rules and guidance had been followe...
Berlusconi Mediaset tax case
Milan prosecutors charged Berlusconi with tax fraud relating to tax years 2002 and 2003 in the case concerning Mediaset television rights. The Milan District Court convic...
Depp v NGN and Depp v Heard
Johnny Depp sued the publisher of The Sun in London over a 2018 article calling him a wife beater and lost in November 2020, when the High Court found the words substanti...
Lula Car Wash cases
Federal prosecutors in the Car Wash operation charged that Lula received undue advantages from construction companies, including a seaside triplex apartment in Guarujá an...