Dealbreaker’s own Bess Levin writes: In the summer of 2009,
Jessica Mang, far left, met an investment banker named Thomas Ammann at a
nightclub in London. Both liked what they saw and started seeing each other “at
least once a week,” on days he wasn’t with his other girlfriend, Christina
Weckwerth. Things were going well, but by November, Mang wanted more. So when
Ammann said he was going to take her on a romantic getaway to Seychelles, and
all she had to do first was use her own money to trade on material non-public
information he’d obtained from his job at Mizuho International about Canon’s
purchase of OCE NV and then give him half the profits, she jumped at the
chance. Not only did he want to go away with her (huge!) but he was entrusting
her with such an important project (huger!); Mang had read all the dating books
and knew that when a guy asks you to violate securities laws, it meant things
were getting serious.
“He basically said that I show him that I trust him — I
invest the money, he still hadn’t specified how — once that’s done, we’ll go on
holiday in the Seychelles,” Mang said today at a London criminal court. “I
thought that was a massive leap in commitment.” She said Ammann told her if she
didn’t do it, “he didn’t want to be with me anymore.” “I thought, you know,
this is a relationship that’s going to go somewhere,…..
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