Insider Trading Fugitive Stuck in China After US Flight Ban (1)

A fugitive accused of insider trading says he’s trapped in China because the US won’t let him board a plane to Boston to fight the charges against him. The Justice Department isn’t sympathetic, saying he created the problem himself by fleeing from Singapore before he could be extradited.

Dev Ananth Durai was indicted in November alongside seven others who allegedly raked in tens of millions of dollars on insider tips ranging from secret merger talks to a profit warning that tanked a French stock. Now, he says that his US Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or ESTA, has been revoked ...