ASIC announces record sentence in Xiao insider trading case
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission announced that Hui Xiao, a former managing director of Hanlong Mining, was sentenced today to a total of 8 years and 3 months for insider trading -- the longest sentence ever imposed in Australia for that crime. The Xiao case is a nice success ...
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