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Ex-UBS Compliance Officer Charged with Insider Trading

June 8, 2017

U.K. regulator Financial Conduct Authority charged Fabiana Abdel-Malek, a former UBS compliance officer, with passing insider information to a London man who traded on that information. According to her LinkedIn profile, Ms. Abdel-Malek, who has a law degree, had been a compliance officer with UBS since 2007.

 

According to court papers, Ms. Abdel-Malek, 34, and Walid Choucair, 38, were each charged with 5 counts of insider dealing between June 2013 and June 2014. Insider dealing in the U.K. carries a maximum prison term of seven years.