U.S. Indicts Nine in Ahold Case
New York City, The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Court of New York said it has filed criminal charges of conspiring to create false accounting records against nine individuals who worked for suppliers to Ahold’s U.S. Foodservice subsidiary in relation to that company’s overstatement of vendor rebates from 2000 to 2003. The nine also face civil charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission.