It sounds like a scene from a James Bond movie. You'll remember that Yihao Ben Pu, the 24 year-old former quant engineer at Citadel, was arrested last month for attempting to steal confidential information from the hedge fund's trading systems, BusinessInsider writes.
Brief refresher: the ex-tech employee at Ken Griffin's Citadel was charged with stealing the secret alpha codes and transferring them to external devices, ABC WLS in Chicago reported.
Well, in the case against him, a remarkable detail about how authorities found the evidence to arrest him has emerged.
From ABC WLS:
He was arrested after an associate of his told the company and federal agents some of the evidence had been dumped into a sanitary canal near Wilmette Harbor. Divers discovered computer equipment in the water that contained Citadel's alphas….
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/yihao-ben-pu-citadel-2011-11#ixzz1ckqirXBN
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