A former Goldman Sachs analyst accused of insider trading with his brother, an ex-Clifford Chance lawyer, claims that he neither knew nor believed that he was in possession of inside information, according to his defence at a London trial.
Mohammed Zina “was not aware that he was on any insider list or that he was an insider at all” when he was working for the London office of the elite Wall Street bank, Brendan Kelly KC told the jury at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday.
Zina, 35, and his brother Suhail Zina, 36, are on trial accused of insider dealing in six stocks between July 2016 and December 2017, and three counts of fraud in relation to loans they obtained from Tesco Bank.