Department of Justice, 25 June 2021
Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing today of a 15-count superseding indictment charging DOV MALNIK and TOMER FEINGOLD with offenses relating to their roles as securities traders in a wide-ranging international insider trading ring who made millions of dollars in illicit profits by trading based on misappropriated inside information. MALNIK, a citizen of Israel and Lithuania, was arrested in Switzerland on October 7, 2020, was extradited on June 10, 2021, from Switzerland, and pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron. FEINGOLD remains at large. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “Today’s charges represent another step in our Office’s pursuit of transnational insider trading. Our Office, along with the FBI and our other law enforcement partners, will vigorously protect the integrity of our nation’s capital markets, regardless of where in the world the inside information is stolen and where tips are illegally passed.”
FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. said: “Whether it happens inside or outside our borders, trading securities based on misappropriated insider information that affects our financial markets in any way will ultimately lead to federal criminal charges here in the U.S. Protecting the integrity of our markets from threats both at home and abroad remains a top priority of our white collar crime division.”
As alleged in the Indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court:[1]
