The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a former finance manager Laksa Bohra at Amazon and two of her family members with insider trading in advance of the company’s earnings announcements between January 2016 and July 2018.
The SEC alleged that Laksa Bohra, who worked as a senior manager in Amazon’s tax department, acquired and tipped her husband Viky Bohra with highly confidential information about Amazon’s financial performance.
The complaint alleges that Viky Bohra and his father, Gotham Bohra, then traded on this confidential information, reaping illicit profits of approximately $1.4 million.
The SEC’s complaint, filed in federal court in Seattle, charges all three Bohras with violating anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws. They have agreed to pay total disgorgement of $1,428,094, total prejudgment interest of $118,406, and total penalties of $1,106,399.
In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington filed criminal charges against Viky Bohra.
According to Erin Schneider, who serves as director of the SEC’s San Francisco Regional Office, “We allege that the Bohras repeatedly and systematically used Amazon’s confidential information for their own gain. Employees with access to confidential, potentially market-moving corporate information may not use that information to enrich themselves, their friends, or their families.”
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