Whistleblower News from the Inside - April 18, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Chinese whistleblowers on the rise – The SEC received one whistleblower tip per week from China last year, double the year before and five times more than in 2011, but the “SEC is just one of many channels for this new breed of Chinese whistleblowers.”  Reuters

NHS whistleblower wins landmark retaliation case – Dr. Raj Mattu, a cardiologist, was suspended for 8 years and then fired for shining a “light on the ‘sinister and dystopian’ culture of cover-up within the NHS, which destroyed the lives of those who tried to speak up for patients.”  Telegraph

Wayne State whistleblower claims university bilked $169M from US in phony research grants – The former medical school professor, Christian Kreipke, alleges the university lied on grant proposals about the actual costs of research projects and was fired when he raised concerns with the school.  Detroit Free Press

Children’s hospital in FL settles whistleblower suit – All Children’s Hospital agrees to pay $7M to settle claims it violated anti-kickback laws by paying inflated salaries and bonuses to doctors so they would bring in more patients and revenues. Tampa Bay Times

MA charges Internet service provider with billion dollar Ponzi scheme targeting Brazilians – The state claims TelexFree lured thousands of Massachusetts residents, mostly from the Brazilian-American community, to invest millions in the pyramid scheme with promised returns of 250%.  Boston Globe

Study shows companies vulnerable to financial fraud in supply chains – New Deloitte study shows many companies are vulnerable to financial fraud due to an insufficient understanding of fraud schemes and little use of analytic tools that can expose fraud by vendors and subcontractors.  Forbes