SEC v. Dishant Gupta (insider trading, 2025)
Judgment entered
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In July 2025 the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a final consent judgment, entered July 29, against Dishant Gupta, an Ipsen employee who bought Epizyme shares before Ipsen announced its acquisition of Epizyme, for about $260,000 in profit. He was held liable for $260,078 in disgorgement and $36,801 in interest, offset by his criminal forfeiture of $260,078; in the parallel case he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two months in prison.
The record
| Agency | SEC |
|---|---|
| Release number | LR-26364 |
| Date filed | 2025-07-30 |
| Date resolved | 2025-07-30 |
| Court | U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts |
| Status | judgment |
| Criminal parallel | Yes: sentenced (Dishant Gupta), D. Mass. |
| Sentence | 2 months |
| Defendants | Dishant Gupta |
| Cited as charged or alleged | Exchange Act s.10(b) and Rule 10b-5 |
| Techniques | Insider trading |
What was ordered
- Civil penalty
- —
- Disgorgement
- $260k
- Prejudgment interest
- $36.8k
- Total relief
- $297k
- Alleged gain
- —
What is alleged to have happened
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this judgment on July 30, 2025 as release LR-26364, in a District of Massachusetts case filed September 10, 2024, and follows the September 2024 settled charges recorded separately.
The criminal case is United States v. Gupta. Total liability of $296,879 is offset by the forfeiture.
For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.
What technique is this, and how does it work?
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Timeline
- 2025-07-30 Litigation release published
Primary documents
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Same matter
The library links these 2 records because they appear to concern one matter: the same lead defendant, an overlapping technique tag and close filing dates, or a shared court docket or a release that cites the other. Records are listed by date filed.
| Date filed | Agency | Record | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-10 | SEC | SEC v. Dishant Gupta (insider trading, 2024) | Settled |
| 2025-07-30 | SEC | SEC v. Dishant Gupta (insider trading, 2025) | Judgment entered |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC v. Trijya Vakil and Neeraj Visen (insider trading, 2026) | SEC | 2026-09-04 | Insider Trading | $109k | settled |
| CFTC v. Gabriel Perez (insider trading, 2026) | CFTC | 2026-08-28 | Insider Trading | $65k | judgment |
| SEC v. Gavin Wolfe and others (insider trading, 2026) | SEC | 2026-08-21 | Insider Trading | — | filed |
| SEC v. Jesse R. Mitchell (insider trading, 2026) | SEC | 2026-08-21 | Insider Trading | — | filed |
| SEBI v. Arun Kumar Somani and others (insider trading review, Indian Oil Corporation, 2026) | SEBI (India) | 2026-08-13 | Insider Trading | — | dismissed |
| SEC v. Benjamin Tesfaye (insider trading, 2026) | SEC | 2026-08-11 | Insider Trading | $18.7k | settled |