SEC v. Laksha Bohra, Viky Bohra, and Gotham Bohra (insider trading, 2020)

Judgment entered

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In September 2020 the SEC charged a former Amazon finance manager, her husband and his father with trading ahead of Amazon earnings announcements between 2016 and 2018 for about $1.4 million. All three consented to judgments totalling $1,428,094 disgorgement, $118,406 interest and $1,106,399 penalties.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

$1.1m

Disgorgement

$1.4m

Prejudgment interest

$118k

Total relief

$2.7m

Alleged gain

$1.4m

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settled complaint on September 28, 2020 as litigation release 24923, filed in the Western District of Washington.

The complaint alleges Laksha Bohra, a senior manager in Amazon's tax department, obtained confidential earnings information and tipped her husband Viky, and that Viky and his father Gotham traded in eleven accounts held by family members. It also says she ignored quarterly reminders not to pass on such information.

The three consented to injunctions and the totals above; the criminal case was against Viky Bohra. The earlier record split the names incorrectly and omitted the penalties.

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

1. 2020-09-28 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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• SEC litigation release

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