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Tesco is facing a legal action by a group of investors who claim to have lost £150m due to the supermarket's 2014 accounting irregularities scandal.

The number of fraudulent insurance claims surged to 2,500 a week last year, according to industry figures.

The Court of Ventspils has declared the judgement of criminal proceedings for more than 1 045 000 million euros embezzlement of the municipal company "Ventspils Heat". Three workers have been sentenced with imprisonment for a terms of one and a half to three years. All three are former employees - customer care manager, chief accountant and cashier.

Asked the condemnation for Senator D'Ali, accused of collusion with Cosa Nostra. He would have a key role in the management of contracts for major public works, like Castellammare del Golfo port and interventions for the America's Cup in Trapani.

Procurement Monitoring Bureau (IUB) has started examining suspicious procurment of Jūrmala City Council. The council had announced a street maintanance competition of three million euros. However, during the evaluation of the competition a representative of the Green Farmers Union (ZZS) won but the pretender company "A.C.B." with the best offered price was unexpectedly excluded.

According to news website Index, OLAF is investigating in the case of Elios Innovatív Ltd.'s public procurement tenders.

Romania’s anticorruption prosecutors have started an investigation on Brasov’s mayor George Scripcaru. He is investigated for abuse of office, because he allegedly helped a private energy company with contracts at undervalued prices. His actions damaged the local budget by over 1 million EUR, according to judicial sources.

István Tiborcz, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's son-in-law have won public procurement tenders in 13 settlements in the value of 3 billion HUF in 2014. The National Bureau of Investigation has found only one case which seems to be fraud, the damage is 200.000 HUF.

More than thirty Swiss banks were involved in the massive bribery scandal in the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras