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...
Wine fraud
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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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Banned director admits 300,000 pound wine fraud
Jonothan Piper to be sentenced next month...
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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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Fraud probe finds Spanish wine passed off as French
French grower fined after fraud investigation...
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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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'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: banned director jailed after million pound con
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Wine fraud: Ex-director guilty of million pound con
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Fraudsters target victims of collapsed wine investment firm
Consumers owed money and wine by collapsed European Fine Wines Ltd in the UK have been targeted by fraudsters posing as both the company’s directors and its liquidator, while London's High Court has ordered another wine investment group to be wound up.
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Are higher fine wine prices motivating thieves?
A series of high-profile burglaries in the past two years suggest that wine cellars have joined banks, art galleries and jewellery shops at the top of the criminal underworld's hit list.
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Rudy Kurniawan's private cellar could help to repay victims
A year since Rudy Kurniawan was convicted for mass wine fraud in the US, experts are preparing to enter his private cellar to see if wines can be sold to compensate victims owed nearly $30m.
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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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UK wine merchant rejects suspect 1947 Burgundy
Corney & Barrow has raised the alarm after being offered suspicious bottles of a rare Burgundy wine that has previously fetched thousands of pounds at auction.
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Has Rudy Kurniawan damaged trust in the fine wine market?
See both sides of the debate as to whether the recent case and subsequent jailing of wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan has damaged trust in the fine wine market, as featured as the 'burning question' in the Decanter October 2014 issue...
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Swiss winemaker Giroud convicted of tax fraud
Swiss winemaker Dominique Giroud has been convicted of tax fraud, but his spokesperson said the verdict 'does not come as a surprise'.
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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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Label tampering obscures fine wine provenance, merchants warn
Several leading UK wine merchants have said that they are regularly offered fine wines that have had so-called 'strip labels' removed, hiding their true provenance and potentially leading to consumers overpaying, writes Jim Budd in the latest issue of Decanter magazine.
