Aekyung's Buldak ramen-flavored toothpaste faced a recall — like its curry one
Aekyung's Buldak-ramen toothpaste faced a government recall for looking like food — the same problem as its 2020 curry-flavored version.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEVitamina bought 37 Brazilian preschools in 18 months — then put them up for sale
Three years after entering Brazil and buying 37 preschools, the Chilean chain is selling up with about R$50 million in debts — unpaid salaries and rents.
Ler o casoVibrant's Chinese coal buy was falsifying accounts from the day it was acquired
EY's audit found Blackgold kept multiple sets of books, destroyed records and booked 2.05 billion yuan of fictitious sales — Vibrant wrote off the lot.
Ler o casoUttam Galva's deal hunger left three Miglani steel firms in bankruptcy court
The Miglanis bought Lloyds Steel they could not digest; by October 2020 SBI had put Uttam Galva Steels and its Rs 7,469 crore debt before the NCLT.
Ler o casoColombian MVNO Uff Movil went dark owing its network host US$2.8M
Uff Movil, Colombia's smallest operator with 81,000 users, suspended operations in July 2018 over 8bn pesos (US$2.8M) of unpaid network fees owed to Tigo-UNE.
Ler o casoProvidoor collapsed owing $6.3M, defaulting on $4.4M in gift vouchers
Shane Delia's lockdown-era restaurant delivery platform entered administration, leaving thousands of gift-card holders and popular restaurants unpaid.
Ler o casoOsstem Implant: fund manager embezzled ₩188B, 91.8% of equity, stock frozen
One fund-management employee at Osstem Implant allegedly stole ₩188B ($157M) — 91.81% of equity — and Korea froze the stock on 2022's first trading day.
Ler o casoNas Academy's Whang-Od tattoo course ended in apology and a voided thumbprint contract
Nas Academy leaned on a thumbprinted contract for its Whang-Od course; the indigenous commission found no real consent, and the firm apologized and voided it.
Ler o caso100+ brands fled 2GB after Alan Jones' Ardern comment — Macquarie ordered a review
Macquarie Media lost 100+ advertisers and a running $3M EBITDA hit after Alan Jones' on-air attack on Jacinda Ardern, and ordered a full review of the show.
Ler o casoLatitude's $3.2B float died selling an Afterpay dream instead of the real lender
Latitude shelved its second float in two years after investors balked at the price and a pitch dressed a boring, profitable lender as a BNPL star.
Ler o casoKitchen Culture's CEO out: $1.2M loan, $700K cash transfer and three unapproved cars
Kitchen Culture fired CEO Lim Wee Li over 'grave misconduct', lodged a police report on $520,000 of payroll irregularities, and drew an SGX order.
Ler o casoKingfisher's £500M makeover ran aground: exits from Russia, Spain, Portugal
Three years into a five-year plan to add £500 million of profit, the B&Q owner was forecast to go backwards — and pulled out of three markets.
Ler o casoKakao Games softened one line in Guardian Tales — the boycott cut it from 5th to 24th
Weeks before its IPO, Kakao Games softened one line in Guardian Tales; a gamer boycott dropped it from 5th to 24th on Google Play in a day.
Ler o casoA disability charity's olive-farm bets left 87 disabled workers jobless
Endeavour Industries fell into administration after an olive-farm flop, unused land and no NDIS plan — 131 workers lost jobs, 13 residents their homes.
Ler o casoCrown Perth directors told an inquiry they'd never heard of its own bank account
Directors of Crown Perth's Burswood Limited said they first learned of the Riverbank account — allegedly used for laundering — from media reports.
Ler o casoColes raised prices on 20 'locked' items and had to refund thousands of customers
Coles quietly raised the price of 20 products it had promised to keep 'locked', and offered refunds after consumer group Choice complained to the ACCC.
Ler o casoCarphone Warehouse exited Ireland, closing 81 stores and cutting 486 jobs
Dixons Carphone shut Carphone Warehouse's 81 Irish stores weeks after Vodafone stopped selling through the chain; footfall had fallen more than 40% in a year.
Ler o casoAutobahn directors bankrupt over S$115M owed DBS after debt-fueled fleet expansion
Singapore's Autobahn stacked S$300M of group debt on a 1,700-car PHC fleet; its two directors are now bankrupt and face forgery charges.
Ler o casoAIC's ex-chairwoman got 10 years for rigging a Vietnamese monitoring-station bid
A network of dummy companies, inflated quotes and a fabricated 2014 audit report won AIC the Bac Lieu contract — and prison for its boss.
Ler o casoEY Swiss audits missed Zeromax's jewellery and offshore flows before a SFr5.6B fall
The Zug conglomerate tied to Uzbekistan's ruling family paid for diamonds and footballers; EY gave clean opinions for 2005-2007 and now faces a $1B suit.
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