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Gary Yin, an ex-Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC) <\/a>broker, must pay $1.4M in restitution for helping a client launder money made from insider trading. Yin admitted to helping former Qualcomm Inc. president Jing Wang conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars made in insider trading in that company and another company.<\/p>\n

Yin set up brokerage accounts in the British Virgin Islands using a shell company to hide the scam and helped Wang transfer $525,000 to the shell account. He also transported documents to Wang\u2019s brother in China to allegedly help hide the scheme from the FBI.<\/p>\n

Now Yin must forfeit $27,000 in profits he made from trades in Qualcomm stock that were set up in a Merrill broker account in his mother-in-law\u2019s name in the British Virgin Islands. He must also pay a $5,000 fine<\/p>\n

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Gary Yin, an ex-Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC) broker, must pay $1.4M in restitution for helping a client launder money made from insider trading. Yin admitted to helping former Qualcomm Inc. president Jing Wang conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars made in insider trading in that company and another company. 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