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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€34.5mTotal of monetary amounts
€34.5mLargest single case: Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM)
€34.5mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

27 Jan 2026 Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM)ADM: embellished segment results in Nutrition – 40 million USD penalty USADisclosure and reporting obligations €34.5m

ADM and former executives had artificially inflated the results of the Nutrition segment through retroactive intra-group rebates and price adjustments in order to show growth targets of 15–20 %. ADM is paying a civil penalty of 40 million USD; two former managers are paying a combined 979,953 USD in disgorgement including interest and 200,000 USD in penalties, while litigation continues against a third.

What organisations can take from it

Intra-group transfer prices and retroactive segment adjustments require independent control when segments are publicly promoted as growth drivers.

Authority / court
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Area of law
Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations
Legal basis
Antifraud-, Reporting-, Buchführungs- und interne Kontrollvorschriften der US-Bundeswertpapiergesetze (Settled Order der SEC)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Food and agriculture
Mitigating circumstances
ADM's cooperation and remedial measures were taken into account
Liability of senior managers
Vince Macciocchi: 404,343 USD disgorgement/interest, 125,000 USD penalty, 3-year officer-and-director bar; Ray Young: 575,610 USD disgorgement/interest, 75,000 USD penalty; action against Vikram Luthar pending

Original amount 41,179,953 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Jan 2026.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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