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Is shorting a company and then murdering its CEO considered insider trading in your jurisdiction?

bombcar 4 months ago [–]

That wouldn't be insider trading; in fact unless the CEO's death was known to insiders, it almost by definition couldn't be insider trading.

It could be other types of fraud, however.

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