Gupta's lawyers said he did not accrue any 'direct financial benefit' from the insider trading offences and yet he has been ordered to pay a 'heavy price' of two years in prison, a $5 million fine and a separate $6 million in restitution to Goldman Sachs.
Mukesh Ambani-owned RIL's JioMart is set to launch a slew of new products including financial services, electronics to airline tickets to take on the competition from upcoming rivals like the Tata Super app and other established players including PayTM, Amazon and Flipkart. This comes at a time when RIL's e-commerce revenues are set to grow by 35 per cent to $15 billion within four years and its core retail revenue is expected to grow at the same pace to $44 billion, as per a forecast by Goldman Sachs. "The Tata vs JioMart war will be the next big corporate battle to watch. "While Tata has an upper hand like in-house products and brands, RIL has the backing of global biggies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft," said head of a rating firm asking not to be quoted.
Seth Waxman, lawyer for Gupta, told the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday that wiretaps played for the jury were inadmissible because they amounted to hearsay evidence.
Some banks called the Moody's move backward looking, arbitrary and unwarranted.
Some banks called the Moody's move backward looking, arbitrary and unwarranted.
Testifying for the government on the eighth day of 63-year-old Gupta's insider trading trial yesterday, former marketing executive at Sri Lankan native Rajaratnam's Galleon hedge fund Ayad Alhadi disclosed that Gupta had been secretly serving as a Galleon executive.
According to the email, Kumar said, "When with Mukesh on portfolio question. . . 2 things to explore: A) Raj wants to know if they will get into the solar biz aggressively and when (there are implications for supplier companies etc)."
A US judge has asked prosecutors to provide specific financial benefits they allege former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta made by passing inside information to his friend Raj Rajaratnam amidst allegations that he also tipped him about Proctor and Gamble's 2008 sale of Folgers Coffee Co to JM Smucker.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who handles emergency applications from the 2nd Circuit, on Wednesday denied Gupta's request to stay out of prison.
According to the research report by the investment banking major, economic activity levels remain weak in the country, particularly investment demand, as demonstrated by still 'anemic' order inflows and project starts.
The meeting with foreign investors assumes significance as the government is undertaking host of reform initiatives to attract investment.
The two bigger takeaways from this case for Indian regulators and enforcement agencies are the speed and efficiency with which it was concluded.
Will Judge Jed Rakoff be swayed by the former Goldman director's influential well-wishers or will he deliver stiffer punishment?
Microsoft came the closest and acquired 1.6 per cent stake in the company for $250 million valuing it at $15 billion.
US District Judge Jed Rakoff had set as October 18 the date for sentencing Gupta after the ex-McKinsey head was found guilty by a jury here of passing confidential company information to Rajaratnam.
Rajat Gupta, one of the most successful Indian Americans on the Wall Street, was on Friday found guilty of passing confidential market information to Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, in one of America's biggest insider trading cases.
Berkshire Hathaway's India-born head of reinsurance business Ajit Jain, seen as a possible successor to billionaire investor Warren Buffett, will testify through a video deposition for his "close friend", former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta in his insider trading trial.
The brief courtroom drama began on Monday when the jury was listening to the testimony of star government witness Goldman Sachs chief executive officer Lloyd Blankfein.
Samant said he has been into R&D for the past 24 years and before joining GlobalLogic, he was president at Ness Technologies and had worked at Hewlett-Packard lab in India and also has worked at IBM labs.
The ugly underbelly of the policies of economic liberalisation followed over the last two decades has been crony capitalism at its worst.
Two whole-time directors KVS Manian and Shanti Ekambaram of Kotak Mahindra Bank are in the race for the post of managing director and CEO, the position vacated by Uday Kotak last week. Kotak stepped down as MD and CEO of the bank effective September 1, 2023, four months ahead of his term was to end. The RBI will soon decide on Kotak's replacement as the new MD and CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank, as the new person has to take charge on or before January 1, 2024.
'Domestic investors are opening up to the idea of high-growth Internet companies as a pool of value creation.' 'They like the execution that they see with Zepto, and for us, that is the most important factor.'
Lower reduction in fiscal deficit is to stimulate demand in a weak economic environment post demonetisation.
Indian-American Rajat Gupta, former board member of Goldman Sachs and Proctor and Gamble, has rubbished charges of insider trading against him as "baseless" with his lawyer asserting that his conduct and integrity were "beyond reproach".
The total number of staff to be cut has not been finalised but could be as high as 90 people, the sources said, declining to be identified because the matter is confidential.
India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta has asked a US court for a new trial to reverse his conviction on insider trading charges, arguing that the district judge had committed "serious evidentiary errors" that tipped the scales decisively in the case.
The Union Budget for 2011-12 comes at a critical juncture for the economy -- high inflation, tight liquidity, elevated fiscal and current account deficits, and a slowdown in the reform process have taken away the sheen from the India growth story.
The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore invites corporates, entrepreneurs, professionals, MBA students and undergraduate students to attend its annual festival VISTA 2006.
Global private equity majors - Standard Chartered Private Equity and London-headquartered 3i - are understood to have shown keen interest to invest in the litigation-prone Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) Bangalore-Mysore expressway being developed by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Limited (NICE).
Jailed hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam has agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed by US regulator SEC against him and India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta for their roles in one of the largest insider-trading schemes in US history.
Bharti Infratel plans to raise Rs 4,500 cr through its IPO.
According to the Notice of Appeal filed by his lawyer Gary Naftalis in US District Court Southern District of New York, Gupta's "appeal concerns conviction only."
The 15-page judgment is amazingly lucid, elegant and balanced.
Moderating economic growth and easing inflation may prompt the Reserve Bank to halt interest rate hike in the upcoming mid-quarterly credit policy review later this month, according to analysts.
Gupta, 63, read from a prepared statement for six minutes before being sentenced.
No one knows what Rajat Gupta gained from leaking insider information to Raj Rajaratnam. The irony is that he did not make any money.
A criminal case was filed against Gupta by the United States Attorney's Office on October 26, 2011 for insider trading.
Showing lenience and also appreciation for his humanitarian work, Judge Jed S Rakoff of the Federal District Court in Manhattan handed a two-year prison term to Rajat Gupta, former head of McKinsey and Co and also a former director of Goldman Sachs and Proctor and Gamble for leaking insider information.
The SEC however added that "dismissing these proceedings will not prevent the Commission from filing an action against Gupta in United States District Court."
The six-member government-appointed board of scandal-hit Satyam Computer Services today appointed investment banks Goldman Sachs and Avendus to explore various strategic options for the company, which include identifying strategic investors and obtaining expressions of interest from them in a fair and transparent manner.
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