The director of the British Council's office in St . Petersburgwas also stopped by Russian authorities near his home, and then publicly accused by Russia -- which provided no evidence -- of drunken driving.
In the beginning, which in this case means the 1990s, attention was focused mostly on a single American company – Microsoft – which was accused by European competition authorities of abusing its monopoly on desktop operating systems and was eventually fined €561m for failing to promote a range of web browsers, rather than just Internet Explorer, to EU users.
He was then accused by the BCCI of embezzlement (which he denied), briefly arrested and slung out of Indian cricket.
The case stemmed in part from oversight of OptionsXpress, a firm now owned by Charles Schwab, which was accused by the S.E.C. of engaging in an abusive naked short-selling scheme, or selling shares before borrowing them first.
That means that Rwanda, which is accused by the UN's own experts of a litany of crimes in the neighbouring DR Congo, will now have oversight of any international action in that crisis.
Hallett stopped short of criticising the Met or the Crown Prosecution Service, which were accused by Hallam's defence team at his appeal of failing to pursue lines of inquiry and not disclosing all the evidence.
The plan principally targets the "big three" U.S.-based agencies — Fitch, Moody's, and Standard & Poor's — which are accused by their European critics of exercising too much power and not enough responsibility in assessing national and corporate debt.
Sir Tony Robinson played Baldrick in the long-running comedy series, which was accused by the education secretary of peddling myths and suggesting the first world war was "a series of catastrophic mistakes".
The United States Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear the Federal Trade Commission's appeal in its suit against the chip maker Rambus, which was accused by the agency of "deceptive conduct".
Still, he said nothing about new sanctions or other penalties toward Tehran, which is accused by US intelligence of conducting at least two ballistic missile tests in recent months, in violation of UN security council resolutions.
