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Ex-SocGen Trader Gets 3 Years, States: ‘The Character of a Man is in the Dark’

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Default Ex-SocGen Trader Gets 3 Years, States: ‘The Character of a Man is in the Dark’

A former Societe Generale SA trader has been sentenced to three years in prison in the theft of the investment bank's proprietary computer code for its high-frequency trading business.



By way of background, federal prosecutors in Manhattan had alleged that Samarth Agrawal secretely printed out copies of the bank’s computer code in 2009 and planned to use it to build a copy of SocGen’s trading program at a competitor. A jury convicted him last year of theft of trade secrets and transportation of stolen property.

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