Corporate scandals

Swiss multinational banking institution

Mattel, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company headquartered in El Segundo, California. Founded in Los Angeles by Harold Matson and Ruth and Elliot Handler in January 1945, Mattel has a presence in 35 countries and territories. Its products are sold in more than 150 countries.

2014 ferry disaster in South Korea

industrial building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh

disaster in which the cruise ship 'Costa Concordia' capsized and sank on 13 January 2012

fraud on emissions tests using a defeat device from 2009 to 2015 by Volkswagen

American former automobile manufacturer

iron ore dam failure in Brazil, disaster which occurred on 25 January 2019

American car rental company

English merchant bank

FTX Trading Ltd., trading as FTX (Futures Exchange), is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund. The exchange was founded in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang and collapsed in 2022 after massive fraud perpetrated by Bankman-Fried and his partner Caroline Ellison forced the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2001 accounting scandal of American energy company Enron

June 29 1995 South Korean building collapse disaster

scandal involving unconsented use of personal information on Facebook for political propaganda

Chinese state-owned telecommunication company

cases of corruption by officials and associates connected with FIFA

monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies

Wirecard AG is an insolvent German payment processor and financial services provider whose former CEO, COO, two board members, and other executives have been arrested or otherwise implicated in criminal proceedings. The company offered electronic payment transaction services and risk management, and issued and processed physical and virtual cards. As of 2017, the company was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and was a part of the DAX stock index from September 2018 to August 2020.

Indian conglomerate

American hedge fund firm that collapsed in 1998

2017 failed music festival in Exuma, Bahamas

former bank of Spain

political scandal

bank of the Medici family

request to return a product after the discovery of safety issues or product defects that might endanger the consumer or put the maker/seller at risk of legal action

former Japanese automotive supplier

place in Grand Bahama, Bahamas

Defunct bank founded to commit fraud and other crimes (1972–1991)

contest incident

1981 structural collapse in Kansas City, Missouri

London banking fraud

often attacked and corrupted bank

investment scandal discovered in 2008

editors using Wikipedia to advance the interests of their external roles or relationships

British legal and political scandal

high failure rate of electrolytic capacitors produced between 1999 and 2007

group of diseases caused by pollution in Japan

Wikipedia editing scandal

fraud involving complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds, overstating revenues, understating expenses, overstating the value of corporate assets, or underreporting the existence of liabilities

1914 scandal in Japan

VShojo, Inc. is an American talent agency that focuses on promoting VTuber content creators based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2020 as the first major VTuber agency fully based in North America, VShojo bills itself as a "talent first" agency oriented towards providing resources (such as models, merchandising, and advertisement opportunities) to its talent. During its operations, it was generally considered one of three major companies in VTubing, alongside Hololive Production and Nijisanji.

Bre-X was a group of companies in Canada. Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a major part of Bre-X based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it reported it was sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and in October 1995 announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered, sending its stock price soaring. Originally a penny stock, its stock price reached a peak at CAD$286.50 (split adjusted) in May 1996 on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE), with a total capitalization of over CAD $6 billion. Bre-X Mine

series of record arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia, paid for by the delivery of up to 600,000 barrels (95,000 cubic metres) of crude oil per day to the British government.

UK royal scandal

accounting scandal involving Wirecard

Internal document leak from Facebook

financial scandal in India

2022 controversy regarding Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift

2017-2018 money laundering scandal

online magazine

financial services group and defunct Ponzi scheme

SafeMoon LLC was an American cryptocurrency and blockchain company created in March 2021. The company created the SafeMoon token (SFM) which traded on the BNB Chain blockchain. The token charged a 10% fee on transactions, with 5% redistributed (or reflected) to token holders and 5% directed to wallets in a different currency, Binance Coin (BNB), controlled by the coin's authors. The token reached its all-time high market cap in April 2021 of $17b.

American chief executive and money launderer

metal trading scandal in Japan

corruption and bribery scandal in Greece

Defunct Canadian Media Company

scam on the Bombay Stock Exchange

Italian corruption scandal

businessperson

Sony BMG's implementation of copy protection measures