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List of insider traders
This '''list of insider traders''' is people who have engaged in [[insider trading]].

The numerous other forms of market frauds are not included here.  (In particular promotions and [[pump and dump]] and similar are not considered inside information.)

The list is chronological by the dates of the trades (or alleged trades), though often the matters only became public knowledge much later, and the results of trials etc even later still.

==Australia==
* [[Simon Hannes]], Australian [[Macquarie Bank]] executive, convicted and jailed over [[option]]s bought [[19 September]] [[1996]] ahead of TNT takeover.

* [[Steve Vizard]], Australian businessman and entertainer, admitted as part of a civil settlement to an associate company making trades in [[2000]] ahead of deals involving [[Telstra]], of which he was a director. On [[July 28]] [[2005]] Vizard was fined AUD$390,000 and received a 10 year ban from acting as a [[Company Director]]. This has caused bitterness to some observers, who contrasted the (allegedly) relatively lenient treatment of Vizard with the significantly harsher criminal sentence for insider trading handed down to Sydney businessman [[Rene Rivkin]].

* [[Rene Rivkin]], Australian stock-market high-flyer, convicted and jailed over buying [[Qantas]] shares [[24 April]] [[2001]] ahead of a deal. Committed suicide in 2005.

== France ==
* [[George Soros]], [[billionaire]] financier convicted in 2002 by a French court for his role in the 1988 takeover of [[Societe Generale]]. ⏎
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==United States==
* [[Ivan Boesky]], US [[arbitrageur]] who acted on tips from corporate insiders in the [[1980s]], jailed under a [[plea bargain]].

* [[George Soros]], [[billionaire]] financier convicted in 2002 by a French court for his role in the 1988 takeover of [[Societe Generale]]. ⏎
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* [[Roger Blackwell]], professor and marketing expert, convicted in 2005 for tipping off family and friends about [[Kellogg]]'s purchase of Worthington Foods Inc.

* [[Marylin Star]], Canadian [[porn]] actress convicted in 2003 of insider trading for acting on information provided by her lover, James McDermott, former CEO of investment firm Keefe Bruyette & Woods. The trades were made in 1997 and 1998 and Star was alleged to have made just over $80,000.  

* [[Samuel Waksal]], US founder of [[ImClone]], jailed for family sales of ImClone in December [[2000]] ahead of a drug non-approval.
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==See also==
*[http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/cth/federal%5fct/2005/1037.html Full text of Australian Federal Court Judgement sentencing Vizard 28 July 2005]

[[Category:Lists of people|Insider traders]]
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[[Category:Scandals]]