Channel Islands News
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RHJ International defended its planned purchase of Deutsche Bank AG’s BHF-Bank after a group of investors called for the Belgian investment firm focusing on banking and financial services to be broken up.
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CVC Capital Partners Ltd. is pressing investors to commit to its 9 billion-euro ($12 billion) buyout fund within the next eight weeks to preempt European Union rules that could stop the private-equity firm seeking backers from the region, three people with knowledge of the fund said.
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Italian prosecutors ordered the seizure of 8.1 billion euros ($10.5 billion) of assets belonging to the Riva family, one of Europe’s wealthiest industrial families and owners of Ilva, Europe’s largest steel plant.
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Italian Finance Minister Vittorio Grilli, who has led a crackdown on tax evasion, bought his Rome apartment partly with funds from a Channel Islands account and then avoided sales tax on renovations by paying cash for about half the costs, Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper reported, citing documents it obtained.
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A wind-whipped wildfire, charring an area more than half the size of Manhattan, forced the evacuation of a college with 4,900 students and threatened 4,000 homes northwest of Los Angeles.
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A fast-moving wildfire northwest of Los Angeles, fanned by strong Santa Ana winds, forced the evacuation of homes and a college campus with 4,900 students.
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Californians are preparing for a prolonged season of wildfires after an unusually dry winter that left millions of acres of scrub brush in the most populous U.S. state primed to burn.
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A Toronto-based investment banker will pay more than $340,000 to settle U.S. regulatory claims that he made illegal trades based on confidential information that U.K. firm Tomkins Plc was a target for an acquisition.
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The U.K. is helping to protect “money-laundering paradises” such as the Cayman Islands by failing to properly exercise its legal authority, Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter said.
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The U.K. government gave individuals evading tax through the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey three years to pay up or face prosecution.
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