The recent conviction of Du Jun, a former managing director of Morgan Stanley Asia’s fixed-income department from 2006 until May 2007, highlights the major crackdown on insider trading that has occurred in that territory in the past few years. Du now faces up to seven years in jail, the latest and most high-profile prosecution in what has been a string of such cases since 2007. Full details are available in this post on my Enforcement Action blog over at Compliance Week.
