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Previous COINBASE global inc. product manager Ishan Wahi has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ).
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After Nikhil Wahi was accused of being counselled by insiders and sentenced to 10 months in prison, his brother, ishan wahi, He pleaded guilty in New York's South District to conspiracy. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in the statement released by the Department of Justice:
(…) Ishan Wahi – a former Coinbase product manager – admitted in court today that he tipped others regarding Coinbase’s planned token listings so that they could trade in crypto assets for a profit.
He was the first insider trader to admit he was guilty.
The investigation conducted by the Southern District of New York revealed that on multiple occasions between June 2021 and April 2022, Ishan Wahi breached his duties of trust and confidence to Coinbase by disclosing confidential business information that he learned in the course of his employment with the crypto exchange.
In July 2022, prosecutors accused the wahi brothers and another suspect, sameer ramani,of plotting electronic fraud using confidential information from the currency database. Prosecutors found that Wahi made close to $1.5 million in profits by making illegal transactions before 40 different currency ads.
Prosecutors found that ishan wahi, along with his Nikhil wahi brother and sameer ramani, secretly executed profitable transactions around the public announcements of the currency base. This way, the brother wahi benefits from the listing of specific crypto assets on the stock exchanges of the coin base.
Following public listing announcements of coinbase, nikhil wahi, and sameer ramani sold crypto asset for profit repeatedly.
Accordingly, in its role at the foundation of money, wahi was involved in the highly confidential process of listing crypto assets on currency base exchanges and had detailed and advanced knowledge about crypto assets that the expected currency base would list.
According to the report, Coinbase has kept this information confidential and forbids its employees from disclosing it to anyone, including providing a "tip" to anyone who could exchange this information.
In May 2022, ishan wahi bought a one-way flight to India just before the product manager of the day had to attend an interview with coinbase. Between booking the flight and his departure, Wahi called and texted Nikhil Wahi and Sameer Ramani about Coinbase’s investigation and received messages from the company’s Director of Security Operations, per information released by U.S. authorities.
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After boarding a flight to India on May 16, 2022, wahi was arrested by police and prevented from leaving the US.
Ishan wahi, 32, has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit electronic fraud and faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years on each count. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams concluded:
(…) “The Southern District of New York has decades of experience pursuing insider trading cases, and we will continue to use our expertise to prosecute this crime no matter what form it takes and where it occurs.”
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The matter is dealt with by the Securities and Product Fraud Working Group. Assistant. lawyers noah solowiejczyk et nicolas roos.
With a market capitalization of $18.4 billion, COIN stocks started the year on an uptrend, as did stocks and crypto assets, on the back of easing monetary policy and expectations of avoiding a recession in the United States.
The coin pool trades at $70.24 per share, a 4.75% retracement over the last 24 hours and a 6.33% decline over the last 7 days.
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