Former Pharmaceutical Executive Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading

Oct. 8, 2024, 8:51 PM UTC

A former executive of a global pharmaceutical company pleaded guilty to earning more than $250,000 by trading on material non-public information, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

According to the DOJ, in 2022 Dishant Gupta worked as the director of strategy and operations of a global pharmaceutical company and obtained material non-public information about the fact that the company was negotiating to acquire certain assets of a smaller pharmaceutical company based in Boston.

The DOJ said that while in possession of this material non-public information, and in violation of his fiduciary duties to his company, Gupta acquired more than 300,000 ...

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