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Tax consultant cops two years jail for insider trading

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
Former PwC tax consultant, Nicholas Glynatsis was convicted on nine charges of insider trading by the NSW Supreme Court yesterday. In December 2011 Nicholas Glynatsis, of Russell Lea, Sydney, pleaded guilty to the charges of insider trading between ...

Insider trading gets former J.P. Morgan staffer jail

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... Rietbergen, of Kensington, NSW gave confidential information to her friend Joseph Levi, of Surry Hills, NSW, in an insider trading scheme that netted over $24,000. In December last year Rietbergen, a one-time relationship services associate with J.P. ...

ASIC targets securities dealers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... matters were referred for investigation, a 13-case jump on the previous period. The matters involved potential insider trading (13), market manipulation (5), possible breaches of market integrity rules (15) and of the continuous disclosure obligations ...

Heads roll at Nomura

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... chief operating officer of ailing Japanese investment bank Nomura will step down to take responsibility for an insider trading scandal. Kenichi Watanabe, Nomura's chief executive, and Takumi Shibata, its chief operating officer will fall on their swords ...

Former Lonsec director charged with insider trading

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... stockbroking and research firm, Lonsec, has appeared in the Magistrates' Court of Victoria charged with 14 counts of insider trading, following an ASIC investigation. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission investigation (ASIC) alleges that ...

ASIC moves on insider trading

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
Insider trading and market manipulation charges are on the rise, according to ASIC, which gets 200 trade surveillance alerts indicating unusual trading activity each day. Deputy chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Belinda ...

ASIC heats up insider trading investigations

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... the corporate advice world on high alert after releasing a report stating it has doubled its investigations into insider trading in the past year. ASIC took over the role as regulator from the ASX in August last year and since that time has engaged in ...

ASIC warns it will act on rogue ETF pricing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... referred for investigation, ASIC market supervision report 243 said. Of those the majority, 17, were for potential insider trading followed by six for market manipulation, 10 for possible breaches of market integrity rules, and two for continuous disclosure ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
A former billionaire US hedge fund player has been found guilty of a spate of insider trading charges and could be slapped with a 19.5 year jail sentence. Raj Rajaratnam, who co-founded the New York-based hedge fund management firm, Galleon Group, has ...

Ex-Macq fund manager gets jail for insider trading

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
The NSW Supreme Court has sentenced a former Macquarie Bank fund manager to two-and-a-half years jail for insider trading. Oswyn Indra de Silva, 37, must serve at least 18 months for 12 illegal transactions he made while employed by Macquarie, ASIC ...