Market watchdog suspects crimes at EADS (Airbus parent company)
A lengthy probe by French regulators suggests "massive insider trading" took place at Airbus parent EADS, judicial officials said Wednesday.
Current EADS Chief Executive Louis Gallois played down the findings, calling them preliminary. If confirmed, however, it would be yet another blow to the Franco-German consortium whose planemaker Airbus has been struggling against U.S. rival Boeing Co.
Preliminary findings were forwarded by the Financial Markets Authority to Paris prosecutors because "the law requires us to do this once the facts are likely to be qualified as criminal," a spokeswoman for the regulator said.
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