AI startup CEO Arya Bolurfrushan pleads guilty in insider trading scheme involving law firm tips
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Arya Bolurfrushan, founder and CEO of Abu Dhabi-based AI startup AppliedAI and former Goldman Sachs banker, secretly pleaded guilty in June 2025 to participating in a large-scale insider trading scheme. The scheme involved attorneys at major law firms tipping traders about mergers their firms were advising on. Bolurfrushan struck a deal with federal prosecutors in Boston who are building cases against dozens of others involved in the long-running scheme. The court records were unsealed on Monday.
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· 3 pulledThe founder and chief executive of an AI startup secretly pleaded guilty last year to participating in a vast scheme in which attorneys at major law firms tipped traders about mergers their employers were advising on.
Arya Bolurfrushan, a former Goldman Sachs banker who founded Abu Dhabi-based AppliedAI, pleaded guilty in June 2025 after striking a deal with federal prosecutors in Boston.
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