{"id":47054,"date":"2015-03-20T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47054"},"modified":"2015-03-20T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:15:23","slug":"london-hedge-fund-trader-jailed-for-insider-dealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/london-hedge-fund-trader-jailed-for-insider-dealing.html","title":{"rendered":"London Hedge Fund Trader Jailed For Insider Dealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/465738835.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47059\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/465738835.jpg\" alt=\"465738835\" width=\"254\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Julian Rifat, a former senior execution trader hedge fund Moore Capital Management LLC, has been sentenced\u00a0to 19 months in jail for taking part in a \u00a3285,000 ($423,000) insider trading scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">Th Independent reports: &#8220;The FCA said he had passed on information on eight companies \u2013 including Barclays, Volkswagen, Metro, a German retailer, and Iberdrola, a Spanish power company \u2013 to an associate, Graeme Shelley, who worked as a broker at Novum Securities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">In 2014, Rifat pleaded guilty to an indictment reflecting 8 instances of insider dealing. Profits from the dealing exceeded \u00a3250,000 ($371.000). \u00a0\u00a0Rifat is the third individual to plead guilty to insider dealing offences arising out of Operation Tabernula, the FCA\u2019s largest and most complex insider dealing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Rifat admitted passing inside information, obtained during the course of his employment, to an associate, Graeme Shelley, who then traded for their joint benefit. Earlier this year Graeme Shelley, previously a broker at Novum Securities, pleaded guilty to insider dealing with Rifat and with another associate Paul Milsom. Paul Milsom, an execution trader at Legal and General Insurance Management Ltd, pleaded guilty to insider dealing and was sentenced in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Insider dealing investigations are complex and long-running.&#8221; Tracey McDermott, the FCA\u2019s director of enforcement and financial crime said. &#8220;Nevertheless we are committed to undertaking the painstaking analytical work which is required to bring these cases to court. In this case measures were taken by those involved to conceal their activities \u2013 this included communicating via unregistered Pay As You Go mobile telephones and the diversion of trading profits to third parties. The guilty plea today is a reflection of our capability and determination to tackle these challenging and complex cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Julian Rifat, a former senior execution trader hedge fund Moore Capital Management LLC, has been sentenced\u00a0to 19 months in jail for taking part in a \u00a3285,000 ($423,000) insider trading scandal. Th Independent reports: &#8220;The FCA said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47061,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47054\/revisions\/47061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}