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Croatian Seamstress Fined $5.72 Million
Zagreb | 03 February 2010 |Sonja Anticevic faces the penalty because of her implication in an insider trading ring. With the help of a relative trading shares in her name in America, she is suspected of having illegally earned more than €1 million from shares in Reebok in 2005, local media report.
Federal Judge Kimba Wood confirmed the ruling made by the New York federal court. Wood also said a letter from Anticevic’s attorney, Ante Madunic, arrived too late to be considered by the court. Madunic drafted a letter in August 2009, stating that Anticevic was innocent, but it was not sent until last December, Woods said. By that time, the New York federal court had already ruled on the case.
Anticevic had tried to claim she knew nothing about trading and her accounts were opened by David Pajcin, one of her relatives. Anticevic also had refused to appear in court for the hearing in the US.
