1.   Two policemen who helped convict a fraudulent investment consultant have been given certificates of commendation.

2.   An Atlanta day trader charged by security regulators with operating a fraudulent investment scheme involving several million dollars will not respond in court to the allegations.

3.   An education professor at Arizona State University in Tempe and two others have been ordered to shut down a Web site that touted allegedly fraudulent investments.

4.   He said he did not know the totals involved in the fraudulent investments.

5.   He was referring to a reportedly fraudulent investment fund that effectively went bankrupt this summer, leaving thousands of Russian investors with huge losses.

6.   State regulators Wednesday ordered half a dozen Los Angeles-area companies to stop selling fraudulent investments related to Internet products and services.

7.   The revolt in Vlore and the unrest in other southern cities was set off by the collapse of fraudulent investment schemes that the government allowed to operate without regulation.

8.   Daily News editor Geoffrey Nyarota and Wilf Mbanga were arrested and charged with filing fraudulent investment and licensing documents earlier this week.

9.   He promised to pay overdue wages, compensate investors who had lost their savings in fraudulent investment schemes and increase the benefits of pensioners.

10.   Hundreds of people jostled with police and jeered authorities Thursday, demanding that the government pay back money they lost when a fraudulent investment fund collapsed.