Prosecutors request jail time for Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle for insider trading

by times news cr

2024-08-22 16:51:35

Among those who will have to testify are the current manager of Blanco y Negro, Aníbal Mosa, the general manager Alejandro Paul, Leonidas Vial, the former sports manager Sabino Aguad and the former UDI deputy Gustavo Hasbún, among others.

The High Complexity Prosecutor’s Office in the North Center He asked for a sentence of Five years in prison for insider trading and violation of the Securities Market Law for Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle, following the sale of shares in Blanco y Negro.

According to the investigation of prosecutor Jaime Retamal, The former Minister of Sports made a profit of 1.2 billion from the sale of four million shares of Blanco y Negro on May 29, 2018.

This, after the day before the sale of shares of the corporation that controls Colo Colo He had access to the financial statements at a board meeting, in his role as president of Blanco y Negro, He therefore instructed executives at Inversiones III, another of his companies, to buy and then sell ByN shares.

For the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle “operated in the stock market (…) taking advantage of the aforementioned information that he obtained by virtue of his privileged position as President and Director of ByN, that is, as an insider (primary) of the issuing company, avoiding a significant loss in the value of his investments.”

For this operation, the Market Commission (CMF) filed charges against Ruiz-Tagle and imposed a fine of 7,500 UF.

Among those who will have to testify are the current manager of Blanco y Negro, Aníbal Mosa, the general manager Alejandro Paul, Leonidas Vial, the former sports manager Sabino Aguad and the former UDI deputy Gustavo Hasbún, among others.

They are joined by Andrés Montes, a prosecutor from the Investigation Unit of the Financial Market Commission and former regional prosecutor for the North Central Region, who was instrumental in detecting the criminal record against the businessman.

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