Goldman Sachs banker arrested over claims he stole secret information
A former Goldman Sachs banker has been arrested in New York on allegations that he stole secret information about the bank's trading systems and uploaded them on to a German website.
By Louise Armitstead
Telegraph, 06 Jul 2009
Russian-born Sergey Aleynikov was arrested by FBI agents on Friday evening at Newark Airport on a "theft of trade secrets charge", according to a criminal complaint document. He is reportedly being held at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Brooklyn.
The case, which has raised serious alarms about the security of proprietary assets across all investment banks, could shine a spotlight on the opaque money-making machines at the centre of Goldman and others.
Mr Aleynikov, who joined Goldman in May 2007, was responsible for "development of a distributed real-time co-located high-frequency trading platform," according to his profile on the Linked-In website.
It is alleged that when he left Goldman in June he took with him important and confidential information regarding Goldman's automated stock and commodities trading business.
The criminal complaint, which doesn't name Goldman as the bank affected, said: "The Financial Institution has devoted substantial resources to developing and maintaining a computer platform that allows the Financial Institution to engage in sophisticated high-speed, and high-volume trades on various stock and commodities markets. ."
Goldman declined to comment. Mr Aleynikov's wife told reporters she had no idea why Federal authorities arrested her husband.
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