The institutional context of financial fraud in a post-transition economy: The Quaestor scandal

The article will analyse the greatest Hungarian securities fraud to date: the Quaestor scandal. Quaestor was a holding of several companies, including one of Hungary's biggest investment adviser and brokerage firms, which went into bankruptcy in early 2015. Later investigations uncovered a mass...

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Main Author: Györy, Csaba (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: European journal of criminology
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