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US: Banca IMI to pay US$2.2M for bid-rigging

By  |  May 12, 2019

Banca IMI Securities has pleaded guilty to an antitrust charge and was sentenced to a pay a criminal fine of more than US$2 million for its involvement in a conspiracy to rig bids for pre-release American Depository Receipts (ADRs), the US Justice Department (DOJ) said in a statement on Friday, May 10.

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    The DOJ announced that the New York-based broker-dealer, which is indirectly controlled by Banca IMI, admitted that it engaged in the conspiracy with other institutions and individuals between March 2012 and at least August 2014.

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    The broker pleaded guilty to conspiring to borrow pre-release ADRs from US depository banks at artificially suppressed rates, the statement said.

    “On at least 30 occasions, Banca IMI reached an agreement with one or more co-conspirators as to the bids they would submit to US depository banks. On many occasions, the conspirators agreed that they all would submit the same bid,” the DOJ added.

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