SEC eliberează un premiu record pentru avertizori de 279 de milioane de dolari

SEC eliberează un premiu record pentru avertizori de 279 de milioane de dolari

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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued its largest-ever whistleblower award totaling $279 million.

The SEC generally issues awards ranging between 10% to 30% of collected monetary sanctions larger than $1 million. To receive such an award, the whistleblower must provide information that directly assists the SEC in impunerea cu succes a măsurilor de executare asupra unui caz anume.

Într-o declarație din 5 mai, SEC notat că cele 279 de milioane de dolari acordate denunțătorului nenumit au fost mai mult decât dublu față de recordul anterior de 114 de milioane de dolari din octombrie 2020.

Additionally, the $279 million figure awarded in this latest case is more than all of the whistleblower awards eliberat for 2022, with the SEC dishing out $229 million across 103 awards last year.

“The size of today’s award — the highest in our program’s history — not only incentivizes whistleblowers to come forward with accurate information about potential securities law violations, but also reflects the tremendous success of our whistleblower program,” said Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC’s division of enforcement.

These awards come from an investor protection fund established by the U.S. Congress. It is funded via collected monetary sanctions paid to the SEC by securities law violators and does not come from funds that are owed to harmed investors.

In these circumstances, the SEC does not refer to the specific case the whistleblower award relates to or the name of the whistleblower to protect their privacy.

Ca atare, nu este clar dacă aceasta se referă la o încălcare majoră a valorilor mobiliare din sectorul cripto sau Wall Street.

Regarding the whistleblower, the SEC did note that they helped provide key info on a case it was already working on.

“The whistleblower’s sustained assistance, including multiple interviews and written submissions, was critical to the success of these actions,” noted Creola Kelly, the chief of the SEC’s office of the whistleblower.

„În timp ce informațiile denunțătorului nu au determinat deschiderea anchetei Comisiei, informațiile lor au extins sfera de abatere acuzată”, a adăugat ea.

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The SEC’s whistleblower incentive program was established in mid-2010 under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was signed into law by former President Barack Obama. The law also simultaneously established a similar program for the Comisia de tranzacționare a mărfurilor futures

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