Nine Stock Traders Arrested for Insider Trading

Police conducted a raid on nine stock traders on Tuesday morning. They are now detained on suspicion of profiting from buying shares after receiving leaked confidential information.

During the fall of 2024 and spring of 2025, extensive trading occurred in two listed companies. Shortly thereafter, it became public that bids had been made for the companies.

– We suspect that information about the companies being acquired was leaked and that several individuals traded on this insider information. This involves information that was not available to the market at that time, says Björn Rygart, commissioner at the Economic Crime Authority's financial market chamber, in a press release.

Now, nine individuals are detained on suspicion of insider trading. The arrests are said to be the result of a long-term surveillance and investigation, writes the Economic Crime Authority.

– The suspicions involve repeated criminal activity where a large number of suspects with mutual connections have repeatedly traded in a coordinated manner with large sums. In this way, it is insider trading on a level we have hardly seen before, says Jonas Myrdal, acting deputy chief prosecutor and preliminary investigation leader at the Economic Crime Authority.