PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – The number of suspects detained in an alleged plot to assassinate Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister rose to 13, a top security official said on Monday while offering few new details about the conspiracy.

National Security Minister John Sandy faced intense questioning at a news conference from reporters pressing for more specifics since Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced on Thursday that officials had uncovered a plot.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A light sentence handed down on Friday for a former top UBS private banker who became a U.S. government informant on wealthy American tax cheats ramps up pressure on the Swiss banking industry.

Renzo Gadola, who worked at Swiss bank UBS AG (UBS.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) from 1995 to 2008, received five months’ probation from a Florida federal judge and a fine of $100. He had cooperated extensively with U.S. authorities conducting a wide-ranging criminal investigation of scores of Swiss banks.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A former senior UBS banker who helped the U.S. government expand its crackdown on offshore tax evasion was sentenced to five years probation on Friday for advising wealthy Americans on ways to hide their money from U.S. tax authorities.

Renzo Gadola, who worked at Swiss bank UBS AG from 1995 to 2008, pleaded guilty in December to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

TOKYO/MIAMI (Reuters) – An investment banker raised concerns about dubious accounting at Japan’s disgraced Olympus Corp as long ago as the 1990s, after he discovered it was using Bermuda-based funds to “invent” assets and patch up its balance sheet, he told Reuters.

The banker’s concerns, which he says were discussed inside Wall Street bank PaineWebber, his employer at the time and the arranger of Bermuda schemes for Olympus, is one of the earliest red flags known to have been raised over the Japanese company’s accounting irregularities, which continued for two more decades.

TOKYO/MIAMI (Reuters) – An investment banker raised concerns about dubious accounting at Japan’s disgraced Olympus Corp as long ago as the 1990s, after he discovered it was using Bermuda-based funds to “invent” assets and patch up its balance sheet, he told Reuters.

The banker’s concerns, which he says were discussed inside Wall Street bank PaineWebber, his employer at the time and the arranger of Bermuda schemes for Olympus, is one of the earliest red flags known to have been raised over the Japanese company’s accounting irregularities, which continued for two more decades.

BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) – A former Wall Street banker of Japanese descent has emerged as a key figure in the scandal engulfing Japanese blue-chip company Olympus Corp (7733.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), according to documents provided by the company’s ex-CEO.

The veteran banker, Hajime ‘Jim’ Sagawa, owned an obscure U.S. financial firm that was hired by the camera and endoscope maker five years ago to provide what later turned out to be stunningly expensive advice, a fee of $687 million, the documents show.

BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) – A former Wall Street banker of Japanese descent has emerged as a key figure in the scandal engulfing Japanese blue-chip firm Olympus Corp, according to documents provided by the firm’s ex-CEO.

The veteran banker, Hajime ‘Jim’ Sagawa, owned an obscure U.S. financial firm which was hired by the endoscope-maker five years ago to provide what later turned out to be stunningly expensive advice, a fee of $687 million (435 million pounds), the documents show.

Oct 21 (Reuters) – A former Wall Street
banker of Japanese descent has emerged as a key figure in the
scandal engulfing Japanese blue-chip firm Olympus Corp (7733.T: Quote, Profile, Research),
according to documents provided by the firm’s ex-CEO.

The veteran banker, Hajime ‘Jim’ Sagawa, owned an obscure
U.S. financial firm which was hired by the endoscope-maker five
years ago to provide what later turned out to be stunningly
expensive advice, a fee of $687 million, the documents show.

MIAMI, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Florida’s attorney general
dismissed media reports that a final settlement is imminent in
multi-state negotiations over alleged foreclosure abuses by
U.S. banks.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi also said states that
have pulled out of the negotiations should return to bolster
any deal. Federal, state and bank officials are expected to
hold another round of negotiations in Washington on Thursday.

By Kevin Gray

(Reuters) – Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd DLTE.UL, the world’s largest accounting and consulting firm, was accused on Monday of failing to detect fraud during its audits of one of the biggest private mortgage firms to collapse during the U.S. housing crash.

A trust overseeing the bankruptcy of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp, or TBW, and one of the company’s subsidiaries filed complaints in a Miami Circuit Court claiming a combined $7.6 billion in losses.