Jabez Balfour as Liberal candidate in Croydon at the general election but lost to the Conservatives. He also stood unsuccessfully for the Liberals at Walworth in 1886. In 1880 he was appointed chairman of the Northampton Street Tramways. Together with City financiers Leopold Salomons and Sir John Pender, Balfour founded the investment underwriting firm the "Trustees, Executors and Securities Insurance Corporation, Limited" in December 1887. In 1892, he was at the centre of a scandal over the failure of a series of companies which he set up and controlled, starting with the London and General Bank and culminating in the Liberator Building
Sergiu Băhăian Sergiu Băhăian Sergiu Băhăian alias Vasile Negrila is a Romanian businessman, convicted fraudster, and Romanian prosecutors allege, the leader of a criminal organization responsible for the killing of at least four people. Băhăian became notable in the 1990s when he scammed over 5000 people with bad checks though his company "Sabina Product", which is considered one of the biggest financial scandals in Romania during that decade. The damages were over 7 billion lei. In 1995 Băhăian fled to Hungary together with three accomplices, but he was caught, extradited, and sentenced to five years in jail in 1998. He was released