KPMGブルガリア事務所所属の監査人、銀行破たんに関連して訴追される（economiaより）

KPMG auditors charged over Bulgarian bank collapse

ブルガリア当局がKPMGブルガリア事務所所属の2名の監査人を、かつて同国第4位の規模を誇ったCorporate Commercial Bank (CCB)の破たんに関連して訴追したという記事。

The Bulgarian authorities have charged two auditors from KPMG’s Bulgarian arm over alleged failings related to the collapse of Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), once the country’s fourth largest lender


2名の監査人は、CCBの活動における不備を知っていながら、ブルガリアの中央銀行に報告しなかったとされています。昨年6月、ブルガリア政府は、預金取り付け騒ぎが起きたCCBを救済買収しています。

According to Reuters, the auditors have been accused of not reporting known shortcomings in CCB’s activities to Bulgaria’s central bank. Last June, the Bulgarian government was forced to intervene and take over CCB after a 1bn-lev (£401m) run on its deposits.

その後、中央銀行は自ら監査を行い、35億レフ相当の貸出金の記録が紛失していることを発見しました。（ネットでみると1レフ=約70円）

After the takeover, the central bank conducted its own audit of CCB and discovered that records for loans worth 3.5bn lev had gone missing. It passed the report to the chief prosecutor, saying it suspected that CCB employees could have “intentionally caused damage to the bank worth hundreds of millions of lev”.

昨年12月には、ブルガリアの法定監査公的監視委員会は、KPMGが行ったCCBの監査に「重要な欠落と不整合」を発見したと公表しました。

In December last year, Bulgaria’s Commission for Public Oversight of Statutory Auditors announced that it had found “significant gaps and inconsistencies” in KPMG’s audits of CCB.

In particular, it said, the bank’s audits did not comply with international auditing standards “in connection with the bank’s lending”.

It also accused the firm of failing to respond to inconsistencies in record-keeping that could have flagged up the existence of fraud.

日本のバブル崩壊後の状況と少し似ているような感じもします。

Record MG Rover fine slashed（economia）

こちらは英国のデロイトに3百万ポンドの罰金が課せられたという記事。当初の14百万ポンドからだいぶ減額されたとはいえ、大きな金額です。元パートナーにも175千ポンドという個人にとっては大きな罰金が課せられました。

The £14m fine imposed on Deloitte for its role in the MG Rover affair has been reduced to just £3m on appeal, the FRC has announced today

And former Deloitte partner Maghsoud Einollahi has had his fine reduced by £75,000 to £175,000.

デロイトは、MG Rover社の買収に関連して利益相反の可能性を十分に検討していなかったということで、摘発されていました。

The original fine was imposed on Deloitte In September 2013, along with a severe reprimand. An independent FRC tribunal had found that the firm and Deloitte partner Maghsoud Einollahi had failed adequately to consider the public interest and a potential conflict of commercial interests between the “Phoenix Four” – independent corporate finance advisers Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson, John Edwards and John Towers – who had bought MG Rover, the group and various associated companies and shareholders.