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...The group’s leader, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, on Thursday cautioned Arab states not to join the fray and added: “Any American attack will not remain without a response.”...
...Abdel Karim Mahmoud Ibrahim, the Syrian army’s chief of staff, and Ali Mahmoud Abbas, the country’s minister of defence, were both sanctioned for what the UK alleges is the systematic use of sexual and gender-based...
...Its most recent insider trading conviction was that of Fabiana Abdel-Malek, who worked at UBS, and Walid Choucair, who were both convicted of insider trading in 2019 at Southwark Crown Court in a colourful...
...Its co-founder, Karim Shafei, describes it as the first company dedicated to finding life for things that otherwise would be earmarked for destruction....
...Choucair and Abdel-Malek must now complete their prison sentences....
...The jury heard that Ms Abdel-Malek gave confidential tips on deals UBS was working on to Mr Choucair, who would trade himself....
...In convicting the defendants, it appears the jury agreed with the prosecution’s allegations that Choucair’s insider was Abdel-Malek....
...The two defendants, Fabiana Abdel-Malek and Walid Choucair, tried and failed to have their convictions overturned at the UK’s Criminal Court of Appeal last December....
...His arrest comes after security forces detained Karim Ennarah, the EIPR’s director of criminal justice, and Mohamed Basheer, an administrative manager at the organisation, this week....
...Gasser Abdel Razek, executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Karim Ennarah, director of its criminal justice unit, and Mohamed Basheer, its administrative director, had been arrested...
...Karim Ennarah, the director of criminal justice at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was detained on Wednesday while on holiday on Egypt’s Red Sea coast and taken to an “undisclosed location”,...
...Abdel Karim Boujradi, general secretary of Morocco’s Interministerial Delegation for Human Rights, an official body, insisted that no one in the country was prosecuted for expressing their political views...
...“The truth as to why you agreed to this may never be known,” she said of Abdel-Malek....
...On Wednesday, they further found Abdel-Malek guilty for passing confidential tips on Elizabeth Arden to Choucair....
...On Thursday, they found that Abdel-Malek passed confidential tips on North Star Realty to Choucair, who went on to make successful trades....
...Mr Choucair said he “did not have sight of any information Ms Abdel-Malek would have seen” on Targa....
...Mr Choucair denied that he had received inside information from Ms Abdel-Malek, whom he knew through his mother....
...The FCA does not accuse Ms Abdel-Malek of making any money off Mr Choucair’s trades....
...Mr Choucair and Ms Abdel-Malek deny the charges and the trial continues....
...Ms Abdel-Malek would have been “well aware of the prohibition” on passing such information to Mr Choucair, who had no connection to UBS or to the deals concerned, the jury was told....
...The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority accuses Mr Choucair and Fabiana Abdel-Malek, a former compliance officer at UBS, of five counts of insider dealing....
...The FCA has also pursued insider trading cases against Damian Clarke, a former Schroders trader who received a two-year sentence in 2016, and Fabiana Abdel-Malek, a former UBS compliance officer who received...
...Meanwhile, Ms Abdel-Malek will deny passing on any price-sensitive information....
...It was not alleged that Ms Abdel-Malek, who earned nearly £100,000 in her job at UBS, made anything off the trades....
...He is accused by the FCA of netting some £1.4m in profit by using inside information passed by his friend, Ms Abdel-Malek, to trade in companies that UBS was advising on takeovers....
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