Hurb's unpaid hotels stranded travellers as the platform filed a consumer-agency plan
The Brazilian travel platform's failure to pay hotels and pousadas cancelled bookings for thousands; its CEO quit after insulting customers online.
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2,000 已發佈案例 · 定期更新Havanna's Brazil operator joined a R$127M restructuring with 97% of stores in malls
Café del Plata and five sister firms asked a São Paulo court to rework R$127 million in debts after the mall-heavy café model and cheap debt caught up.
閱讀案例Singapore's $8B penny stock crash: 'treasurer' Goh Hin Calm jailed 36 months
The 2013 crash of Blumont, Asiasons and LionGold wiped $8 billion off the SGX; the scheme's seed funder and finance manager pleaded guilty and got 36 months.
閱讀案例Flight Centre clung to its $300 COVID fee until the ACCC moved — the backflip cost $80M
The agency charged pandemic-hit customers $300 per person to cancel, then waived it under regulator and legal pressure — giving up about $80 million.
閱讀案例SEBI fined Fedders Electric's ex-chiefs ₹4.15 crore over inflated circular turnover
Fedders booked fictitious trade with related entities under common management; a CBI FIR later alleged ₹1,029 crore of bank fraud.
閱讀案例EY was warned by its own whistleblower of Wirecard fraud four years before collapse
An EY employee reported Wirecard fraud and a bribery attempt in 2016; the probe was shut down at Wirecard's behest and EY signed clean audits until 2018.
閱讀案例Deloitte Anjin accountants indicted for colluding to inflate Kyobo's pre-IPO value
Kyobo Life's put-option fight with its PE holder ended with prosecutors indicting three Deloitte accountants and two investors over a 409,000-won valuation.
閱讀案例Decathlon pulled its running hijab in France after a week of political fury
A nylon running hood made for Muslim joggers at Moroccan customers' request was suspended in France within days after politicians called it anti-secular.
閱讀案例Buyer's agency Dashdot folded weeks after taking $23,100 fees — 700 clients in line
The Australian buyer's agency entered voluntary liquidation on 28 May 2026, leaving at least 700 clients as unsecured creditors after big up-front payments.
閱讀案例Danone quit the world's biggest dairy market after seven loss-making years
Seven years after entering India, the world's No.2 dairy player shut its dairy business there — premium pricing and cold-chain costs never cracked the market.
閱讀案例A NZ firm's 'money go round' claimed $17.4M in GST refunds — all 39 charges proven
BEL Bracken simulated $133 million of purchases with circular bank transfers and false invoices, harvesting GST refunds in New Zealand's biggest tax fraud.
閱讀案例Barcelona spent €1bn+ on transfers and got worse — ending up about US$1.4bn in debt
The first club in any sport to pass US$1bn in revenue shopped at the top of every market, skipped the future stars, and priced itself into a debt crisis.
閱讀案例Barbeques Galore collapsed after years of losses in private equity hands
Australia's 50-year barbecue retailer entered administration in February 2026 after $30 million of losses across three years.
閱讀案例Bajaj Housing's IPO saw 16% of bids rejected in a UPI mandate backlog
Nearly 9 million people applied for Bajaj Housing Finance's 2024 IPO and 16% of bids failed — the worst rejection rate since the 2022 LIC offering.
閱讀案例Australia Post lost its CEO over Cartier watch bonuses — a Senate report said apologise
The prime minister's 'she can go' ended Christine Holgate's tenure over gifted watches; a Senate inquiry later found she was denied natural justice.
閱讀案例Aussie Farmers Direct tried to out-grocery Coles and Woolworths — and folded in a day
The farm-to-door pioneer expanded into full groceries in 2016 while losing $1M-plus a month; in March 2018 it entered administration and shut immediately.
閱讀案例Astaka's executive director hid RM125M loan demands — SGX ordered him out
Astaka's management called RM125 million of contractor demands immaterial and misled its own audit committee — SGX ordered its executive director out.
閱讀案例Appster, the 'next Apple' with two Gen Z founders, imploded into liquidation
Founded by two teenagers with A$3,000, the app developer hit 350 staff and US$19M revenue — then liquidated days after its Forbes-listed fame.
閱讀案例ANA sold US$10,000 business-class fares for $415 - then cancelled them all
A currency-conversion error left fares live for 12+ hours on ANA's Vietnam site; ANA first promised to honour them, then cancelled and refunded everything.
閱讀案例Agritrade's CFO pleaded guilty to duping 16 banks out of S$631 million
CFO Lulu Lim Beng Kim submitted unaudited, false financial statements that won trade financing from 16 institutions — losses 'unprecedented and staggering'.
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