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The bogus transactions took place in the first three months of 1986, according to the court paper.

And they are quick to claim that they are winning the war against bogus transactions.

Ms. Watkins herself feared that warning about the bogus transactions would be a "job-terminating move."

In a string of bogus transactions, paperwork flowed between Bombay, Geneva and London.

The A.K.A. case, prosecutors contend, demonstrated the difficulty of following the maze of bogus transactions.

The Government said that the three men had agreed to manipulate the prices of the stocks through bogus transactions between accounts controlled by Mr. Lorin.

They have guaranteed their best customers against losses in their stock trading, and then found roundabout ways to repay them for losses that involved creating bogus transactions.

International Japanese brokerages engaged in many more bogus transactions than previously acknowledged and also rigged trades involving U.S. Treasury bonds.

But, Ms. Lawrence faulted the judge for "failing to appreciate the connection between the bogus transactions and the real trading" that Mr. Jett was doing.

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday accused four Merrill Lynch executives of helping Enron fraudulently inflate its annual profits in 1999 through two bogus transactions.

The prosecutor said a key figure in the bogus transactions was Ronald Adrian Powles, a partner in the London office of the Australian law firm that advised the trust fund.

Two businessmen have been indicted in connection with a tax-fraud scheme said to have involved more than $4 billion in rigged and bogus transactions in Treasury bills and other Government securities.

Bolivia's prosecutors are looking into bogus transactions totaling almost $300 million, in which dealers have tried - at times successfully - to buy weapons from manufacturers in Portugal, Bulgaria, Russia and Austria.

Mr. Malik's evidence includes several intricate examples of what Mr. Malik calls money laundering through a global network of businesses, banks and bogus transactions from Lahore to London.

In this arrangement, Kidder was charged with engaging in bogus transactions to hide Mr. Boesky's ownership of certain stocks so that he could acquire more stock with borrowed funds than the law permits.

Thanks to such measures, Cyber Source says that compared with that horror week in 1995 in which bogus transactions outnumbered the legitimate, its own fraud losses have fallen to less than one percent of sales.

In addition, Boyd L. Jefferies, the former chairman of Jefferies & Company, earlier settled S.E.C. charges that he had created such bogus transactions with Mr. Boesky's firm.

Mr. Fastow built an array of off-the-books partnerships, which he used both to illegally enrich himself with company cash and to manipulate Enron's finances by engineering bogus transactions between the entities and the company.

According to the indictment, the defendants created more than $38 billion in bogus transactions in government securities and these transactions resulted in more than $511 million in fraudulent tax losses for the investors in the partnerships.

Last month Mr. Boesky's head trader pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to create bogus transactions with Seligmann, Harris & Company in an effort to inflate the amount of capital of Mr. Boesky's firm.

These were bogus transactions, the S.E.C. said, because Mr. Boesky agreed to buy back each of the stocks within 31 days, and to compensate Mr. Jefferies should the price of any of the securities drop during that time.

The company did not name the trader, but other sources identified him as Jérôme Kerviel, a relatively junior futures trader who allegedly orchestrated a series of bogus transactions that spiraled out of control amid turbulent markets in 2007 and early 2008.

Her readiness to order the disclosures immediately - an unusual step in any case - suggests how credible she considers the suit, which asserts that AOL executives used bogus transactions to inflate advertising revenue around the time the company acquired Time Warner.

According to the complaint, Mr. Fastow - either directly or through co-conspirators - used fronts to invest illegally his own money in certain partnerships, helped Enron misrepresent its profits through bogus transactions by the company and his partnerships and lied to the board.

The couple are accused of having "engaged with others in a scheme to skim company profits by agreeing with exchange traders at our parent company to engage in bogus transactions with the Hungarian National Bank," in the lawsuit filed by Volkswagen of America, a unit of Volkswagen A.G.