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A former analyst by Janus Henderson was found guilty of insiders and money laundering, which was made in one GBP in most profits of almost 1 million GBP Top-class insider trading cases in Great Britain In recent years.
The 38-year-old Redinel Korfuzi was convicted of a jury in front of a jury in front of the London Southwark Crown Court on Thursday after a four-month legal proceedings.
Personnel trainer Rogerio de Aquino and his girlfriend Dema Almesiad were acquitted of the same charges.
The jury was informed that Corfuzi used information as an insider in his earlier role at Janus Henderson to enable his co -conspirators to act and exchange and achieve in stocks, including Daimler and Jet2 Use remote work During the Covid 19 pandemic as a cover.
The siblings that were traded in the companies were often communicated by the jury within 24 hours of Corfuzi, who received information from his work. An apartment in London’s Marybone, in which Corfuzi lived with his sister and partner, was the “heart of the company,” said the public prosecutor.
The accused were charged between December 2019 and March 2021 and a number of money laundering between January 2019 and March 2021. The Financial Conduct Authority announced the indictment in the investigation known as Operation Naples in January 2023.
Corfuzi and his sister looked straight ahead when the judgments were read aloud. The judge gave the jury a majority direction on Thursday on Thursday, which meant that at least nine of the jurors had to agree to every judgment. Only 10 jurors sat on the case after two had been released due to illness.
The committee was unanimous for the insider, who treated the indictment against the couple and achieved a majority conclusion about the money laundering counts.
The maximum punishment for Insider trade At that time, the crimes existed in a prison sentence of seven years and 14 years for money laundering. The Corfuzi siblings will be convicted on July 4th.
“These are serious affairs they were convicted of, and the punishments will reflect this,” his judge Milne told the couple on Thursday.
The accused were motivated by “greed, simple and simple”, said prosecutor Tom Forster KC, who acted for the FCA, in his final speech this month. The “Was clearly a secret trading cub” This was “manipulated” by the use of insider information, he told the jury.
De Aquino (63) and Almesiad (40) did not testify in this case. In an interview, the FCA told de Aquino that he was “Hoodwinded” by Redinel Corfuzi while Almesiad said she was “cheated”.
In his testimony, Redinel Corfuzi said that the cash transferred in bank accounts and security functions was “absolutely not” connected to insiders, but money was collected by British customers of the Albanian building society of his father.
A lawyer for Redinel Corfuzi refused to comment on the judgment. Lawyers for the couple did not immediately respond to inquiries about comments.
