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Westminster Fine Wines Ltd: Director banned for 12 years
The sole director and shareholder of Westminster Fine Wines Ltd has been banned from acting as a UK director...
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Wine fraud: banned director jailed after million pound con
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British duo charged with duping US wine investors in $99m Ponzi scheme
Two British men have been charged with wire fraud and money laundering after allegedly conning US wine investors out of $99.4 million in a Ponzi scheme...
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Has Rudy Kurniawan damaged trust in the fine wine market?
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Premier Cru fraud: Owner John Fox imprisoned for six years
Lengthy sentence for wine Ponzi scheme operator...
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Premier Cru owner pleads guilty to $45 million fraud
John Fox, the owner of one Californian's biggest retailers Premier Cru has turned himself in and admitted to scamming customers out over $45 million...
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Banned director admits 300,000 pound wine fraud
Jonothan Piper to be sentenced next month...
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Fraud probe finds Spanish wine passed off as French
French grower fined after fraud investigation...
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‘Authentic’ Rudy Kurniawan wines up for auction
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Director of fake wine investment firm banned
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Wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan’s Lamborghini up for auction
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Billionaire Bill Koch wins appeal over fake wine
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Wine fraud: Ex-director guilty of million pound con
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Swiss winemaker Giroud cleared of wine fraud
Swiss winemaker Dominique Giroud has been cleared of illegally topping up tens of thousands of bottles of AOC St Saphorin with unapproved wine.
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Counterfeit wines: scandal of the century
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UK gets new fraud hotline: wine included
For the first time ever the UK has a national fraud reporting and advice service.
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Wine investors ‘defrauded of £2.5m’
The trial of six people involved in three allegedly fraudulent wine investment companies started in St Albans Crown Court this week.
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Czech producer in fraud probe
Police in the Czech Republic are investigating one of the country’s biggest producers over the sale of millions of litres of allegedly fraudulent wine.
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Wine fraud through identity theft on the rise
Some £600,000 of wine has been obtained through identity theft in the UK over the past six months, police have warned.
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Canada proposes national Icewine regulations to curb fraud
In an attempt to curb fraud the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is proposing amendments to national regulations governing the production of Icewine.
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Rudy Kurniawan arrested in Los Angeles
Rudy Kurniawan, the millionaire wine collector, has been arrested on fraud charges.
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Ponsot worked ‘closely with FBI’ for Kurniawan arrest
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Kurniawan arrest tip of the iceberg, say Koch and Frye
The arrest by the FBI of Rudy Kurniawan is not enough to deter the tide of fake wine, alleged victims of counterfeiting say.
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Label tampering obscures fine wine provenance, merchants warn
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Wine fugitive wanted on embezzlement charges found in Mexico
A fugitive wanted on charges of embezzling close to $1m at the California wine company that he used to work for has been found in Mexico and deported back to the US.
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All Lafite bottles to carry Prooftag
Chateau Lafite Rothschild has said all bottles from the 2009 vintage will use Prooftag anti-fraud seals.
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Laboure-Roi directors detained in wine fraud probe
Four directors of Maison Labouré-Roi, the 180-year-old Burgundy negociant house, have been accused of various counts of wine fraud.
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1855.com increasingly embattled as protesters gather
The future of French internet wine company 1855.com is looking increasingly perilous as its detractors become more and more vociferous.
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Bill Koch wins case against Eric Greenberg
After years of litigation, multiple failed cases and endless court appearances, billionaire William Koch has claimed the first scalp in his war on what he calls ‘wine fakers’.
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Wine Forger’s Handbook warns of dangers of fake wines
A new eBook warning of the dangers of counterfeit wines has just been published online.
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Clampdown planned as UK loses millions to wine fraud
UK officials are considering tougher rules for drinks wholesalers as figures suggest the government is losing hundreds of millions of pounds annually via illicit wine sales.
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Police raids reveal suspected DRC wine fraud ring
A Europe-wide police operation has uncovered a suspected organised crime network believed to be responsible for selling up to EUR2m-worth (US$2.7m) of fake Domaine de la Romanee-Conti wine.
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