Israeli and German authorities have both opened investigations, questioning executives from Remedia and Humana.
There, at the headquarters of HealthSouth, F.B.I. agents have been searching computers and questioning executives about an accounting fraud they say went on for 15 years.
Others are pursuing the Gosaibis in Bahrain, London, New York and elsewhere.Saudi Arabia's king has formed a 12-member committee to resolve the dispute, and Bahrain's public prosecutor is questioning executives from time to time.
Archie W. Dunham, the chief executive of Conoco, the oil company, said the audit and compensation committees on which he sits at other companies have spent much more time questioning executives since Enron's fall.
Deny and denigrate the media for questioning the executive powers of the President.
As the investigation of Parmalat continued, officials close to the inquiry said that magistrates questioning Parmalat executives and advisers privately told a judge in Milan that Calisto Tanzi, the founder and former chairman of the company, might have misappropriated as much as 800 million euros ($999 million).
South Korean prosecutors have been questioning Hyundai Kia Automotive Group executives about allegations that their companies created multimillion-dollar slush funds to bribe politicians and that they engineered shady deals to facilitate a father-to-son transfer of corporate control in South Korea's second-largest conglomerate after Samsung.
Ahold's board, far from questioning the chief executive closely, tamely extended his term for up to seven years as recently as last spring.
The public accounts committee is also questioning Matt Brittin, chief executive officer of Google UK and Andrew Cecil, public policy director at Amazon, in the wake of a wave of revelations about the tax affairs of international companies.
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