美检察官指控拉贾拉特南用内幕消息团伙获暴利
The biggest insider trading trial in more than a decade has started in New York. Raj Rajaratnam, the Sri Lankan founder of the hedge fund company Galleon, is accused of making more than 45 million dollars in illegal profits from insider information on stock market trades. Caroline Hepkerreports from New York.Sri Lankan-born Raj Rajaratnam was for a time worth more than 1 billion dollars, a prominent hedge fund boss. But he has been accused of using well-placed contacts to cream corporate information that constitutes insider trading. The illegal tips supposedly relate to companies from IBM to Intel and Goldman Sachs. Mr Rajaratnam denies the accusations. Over100 potential jurors in the case appeared in court on Tuesday. The trial could mark a major shake-up in the hedge fund industry.