Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta hits back at US regulator
March 20th, 2011 - 5:21 pm ICT by ANIWashington, Mar.20 (ANI): Former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta, who is accused of sharing inside information with hedge fund trader Raj Rajaratnam, has hit back at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the allegations.
Gupta has denied allegations and has accused the SEC of unfairly ruining his reputation by bringing a shoddy case and depriving him of a trial by jury, the New York Post reports.
Earlier, the SEC had filed civil charges against Gupta alleging that he had passed on inside information about Goldman Sachs and Procter and Gamble to Sri Lanka-born billionaire Rajaratnam, who is alleged to have made over 45 million dollars in illicit profits with the help of insider tips.
Gupta complains that the SEC brought an administrative action rather than a traditional court action, which, if successful, would lead to a battle through the SEC’s in-house court rather than the district courts, where a jury would decide his fate.
Gupta is currently the only defendant in the widespread insider-trading case, which has netted two dozen arrests and almost as many guilty pleas from cooperating witnesses, to be the target of an administrative action by the SEC. (ANI)
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