Ah, the "FT is conspiring with shortsellers to ruin Wirecard" BS Wirecard was aggressively pushing back the day.
Just shows how persistent lies and propaganda can be.
Just shows how persistent lies and propaganda can be.
The other (baseless) accusations you're talking about (and that led BaFin to investigate the FT) are extensively covered in the book.
Edit: Not sure it was insider trading, or illegal. Just probably not in line with FT standards.
But if the trade came up as a matter of an investigator researching a company, and communicating with people about the details. Even if they disclosed the exact time they planned on publishing this information, is it insider trading?
Wouldn't you have to been privy to information from inside the company itself? Otherwise anybody could have investigated this person, and had equal opportunity to discover negative things to expose?
On the other hand, there may be ethical (but not legal) issues from the perspective of the publisher.