- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
The SEC this week announced that it has awarded nearly $4 million to a whistleblower who tipped off the agency about serious misconduct and provided additional assistance during the ensuing investigation.
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Foreign national whistleblowers play a strong role in the SEC’s whistleblower program, highlighted by the most recent award of $500,000 to an overseas informant. This latest payout appears to mark at least the 13th time the SEC has awarded an overseas whistleblower.
The SEC today awarded a whistleblower more than $500,000 for reporting information that prompted an investigation into misconduct that resulted in an enforcement action. It is the second whistleblower award announced by the SEC in the past week.
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