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Irish-Swiss baked foods business Aryzta is using the €400m or so it will get from the near halving of its stake in Dublin-based agri-services business, Origin Enterprises to acquire a 49% stake in French speciality premium food business Picard.

'Tis the Season for funny Christmas songs that make us smile and this one from Captain Jean-Luc Picard has us saying ‘aye aye, sir’.

THE trustee recovering money for Bernard Madoff’s burned investors has reached a $7.2 billion (€5.5bn) settlement with the estate of a Florida philanthropist and businessman who had been the single-largest beneficiary of the fraud.

The court-appointed New York-based trustee trying to recover losses for victims of Bernard Madoff has accused HSBC of fuelling the disgraced financier’s massive fraud.

THE New York trustee appointed to recover money jailed financier Bernard Madoff stole from investors sued three entities where he said more than $30 million (€23m) in Madoff family money was tucked away.

The New York trustee appointed to recover money jailed financier Bernard Madoff stole from investors sued three entities where he said more than $30m in Madoff family money was tucked away.

Fraudster Bernard Madoff’s brother, sons and niece, who were accused in a lawsuit of using the family finance business like a “piggy bank”, have agreed to an asset freeze, according to a court document.

THE death of Jeffry Picower, accused of profiting more than $7 billion (€7.7bn) from the investment schemes of his longtime friend Bernard Madoff, will make it more difficult for suing investors to recoup their money, attorneys have said.

Fraudster Bernard Madoff’s brother, sons and a niece used the family finance business like a “piggy bank”, a court-appointed trustee said.

THE US trustee handling the liquidation of the business of alleged $65 billion (e50bn) fraudster Bernard Madoff has told the High Court he has decided not to participate “at this stage” in court proceedings here.

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