Thursday, 26 July 2007

UPDATE 1-Ex-Impregilo CEO named in insider trading case

(Reuters) - NEW YORK, July 26 - U.S. regulators on Thursday
charged the former chief executive of an Italian construction
company and his wife with insider trading in Elsag Bailey
Process Automation NV just days before a cash offer for the
company was announced in 1998.




The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Alberto
Lina, the former CEO of Italian construction company Impregilo
IPGI.MI>, and his wife, Serenella Lina, of illegal insider
trading in shares of Elsag, a Dutch company then traded in New
York, ahead of the announced $2.1 billion cash offer for the
company by Swedish-Swiss electrical engineering group ABB Asea
Brown Boveri Ltd., now known as ABB .


Read more at Reuters.com Government Filings News

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