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.
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300 条近期案例 · 持续更新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.
阅读案例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.
阅读案例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.
阅读案例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.
阅读案例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.
阅读案例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.
阅读案例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.
阅读案例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.
阅读案例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.
阅读案例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.
阅读案例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'.
阅读案例Adore Beauty's founders cashed out $90M at a $653M float - then shares fell 90%
The online beauty retailer was valued like a tech company at the e-commerce peak; by late 2023 its market cap had fallen more than $500M to a 71c low.
阅读案例ZenRock's same invoice financed twice — $175M of doubtful bank debt surfaced
Judicial managers found 200+ duplicate-invoice financings and $1.6B of receivables that shrank to $136M overnight at the oil trader.
阅读案例Yorkshire Water's £1.5m Ripon sewage scheme delivered 43% of the promised cut
The Ripon scheme was sold as cutting storm overflows into the River Ure by 75%; the company now admits discharges fell only about 43%.
阅读案例OCBC put the Lim family's Xihe Holdings under judicial management over $208M transfer
The bank said it 'strongly distrusts' Xihe's management after $208.1M went to Hin Leong 'for no valid commercial purpose' amid a billion-dollar insolvency.
阅读案例WOM Chile missed its 5G deadlines — the state started cashing its guarantees
Four years into its 5G licence the operator had covered 58% of promised localities; regulators weighed cancelling the concessions outright.
阅读案例Thumb drive inventor Henn Tan jailed for inflating Trek 2000's books
The Trek 2000 founder pleaded guilty to falsifying accounts — by 2015 licensing income was inflated 666%, propped by a forged bank document.
阅读案例Transclean took $1.3M a month for COVID train cleaning it did not do
IBAC heard intercepted calls admitting trains went unsprayed while an official covered up for three years; V/Line sacked its CEO and killed the contract.
阅读案例Toshiba hid Westinghouse's losses even while under probe for accounting fraud
Nikkei Business exposed $926M and ~$400M of Westinghouse impairments Toshiba never disclosed — a second cover-up on top of the ¥151.8B overstatement.
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