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A former J.P. Morgan Securities analyst and two of his friends have been
charged with participating in a $600,000 insider trading scheme.
Ashish Aggarwal, 27, Shahriyar Bolandian, 26, and Kevan Sadigh, 28, were
arrested Tuesday and will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles
in the afternoon.
Each faces one count of conspiracy to commit securities and tender offer
fraud, 13 counts of securities fraud, 13 counts of tender offer fraud and
three counts of wire fraud. Bolandian, a Palms district resident, also faces
one count of money laundering.
According to a grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday, Aggarwal worked at J.
P. Morgan from June 2011 to June 2013 as an investment banking analyst in
the San Francisco office and learned inside information about transactions
between publicly traded companies.
Aggarwal was not directly involved with these transactions but learned about
them from colleagues and then shared that insight with Bolandian, a college
friend. Bolandian, in turn, shared the information with his childhood
friend and Encino resident, Sadigh, according to the documents.
The inside information related to the acquisition in 2012 of integrated
circuit company PLX Technology Inc. by semiconductor firm Integrated Device
Technology Inc., and the 2013 takeover of mobile marketing company
ExactTarget Inc. by cloud computing company Salesforce.com.
Because of the advance notice of those transactions, federal documents
allege that Sadigh made $200,000 in profits, which he used to cover previous
trading losses, and Bolandian netted $400,000 in profits from purchases he
made on behalf of himself, his father and sister. He also shared the funds
with Aggarwal.
The indictment also alleges that the three tried to hide their actions by
sending emails to each other with false statements that made it seem that
their trades were based on research or luck instead of inside information,
and that Aggarwal falsely told a friend that his disclosure of inside
information to Bolandian was inadvertent.
Aggarwal's lawyer, Grant Fondo, said in a statement that Aggarwal denies the
charges against him and intends to "vigorously defend" himself against the
allegations. Bolandian and Sadigh's lawyer could not be immediately reached
for comment.
Last year, a former partner with accounting firm KPMG was sentenced to 14
months in federal prison for insider trading.
charged with participating in a $600,000 insider trading scheme.
Ashish Aggarwal, 27, Shahriyar Bolandian, 26, and Kevan Sadigh, 28, were
arrested Tuesday and will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles
in the afternoon.
Each faces one count of conspiracy to commit securities and tender offer
fraud, 13 counts of securities fraud, 13 counts of tender offer fraud and
three counts of wire fraud. Bolandian, a Palms district resident, also faces
one count of money laundering.
According to a grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday, Aggarwal worked at J.
P. Morgan from June 2011 to June 2013 as an investment banking analyst in
the San Francisco office and learned inside information about transactions
between publicly traded companies.
Aggarwal was not directly involved with these transactions but learned about
them from colleagues and then shared that insight with Bolandian, a college
friend. Bolandian, in turn, shared the information with his childhood
friend and Encino resident, Sadigh, according to the documents.
The inside information related to the acquisition in 2012 of integrated
circuit company PLX Technology Inc. by semiconductor firm Integrated Device
Technology Inc., and the 2013 takeover of mobile marketing company
ExactTarget Inc. by cloud computing company Salesforce.com.
Because of the advance notice of those transactions, federal documents
allege that Sadigh made $200,000 in profits, which he used to cover previous
trading losses, and Bolandian netted $400,000 in profits from purchases he
made on behalf of himself, his father and sister. He also shared the funds
with Aggarwal.
The indictment also alleges that the three tried to hide their actions by
sending emails to each other with false statements that made it seem that
their trades were based on research or luck instead of inside information,
and that Aggarwal falsely told a friend that his disclosure of inside
information to Bolandian was inadvertent.
Aggarwal's lawyer, Grant Fondo, said in a statement that Aggarwal denies the
charges against him and intends to "vigorously defend" himself against the
allegations. Bolandian and Sadigh's lawyer could not be immediately reached
for comment.
Last year, a former partner with accounting firm KPMG was sentenced to 14
months in federal prison for insider trading.
