被称作中国首例操纵证券市场案的“汪建中荐股案”，10月２８日在北京市第二中级人民法院公开审理，汪建中因涉嫌操纵证券市场罪被提起公诉。

经法院审理查明，汪建中在担任北京首放投资顾问有限公司负责人期间，于２００６年７月至２００８年５月间，使用本人及他人名义，开立多达9个证券账户，采取先行买入相关证券，后利用公司名义通过媒介对外推荐该证券，人为影响证券交易价格，非法获利共计人民币１.２５亿余元。

据法院指控，2007年1月9日至2008年5月21日间，汪建中采取上述方式买卖３８只股票包括“工商银行”和“中国联通"，操纵证券市场共计５５次, 累计卖出成交额53.8亿余元。

中国证监会没收汪建中违法所得１.２５亿余元，并处等额罚款。

In October, China heard its very first stock manipulation case at the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court. Trader Wang Jianzhong, who was detained by police in January last year, has been charged with stock manipulation. He faces a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment and a fine of RMB$625m.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), which began the investigation in May 2008, has already confiscated RMB$125m in illegal gains from Wang and has issued an administrative penalty fine totaling RMB$125m. Wang is accused of opening nine accounts under different names from 2006-2008 and trading on manipulation of share prices while he was chairman, executive director and the largest shareholder of Beijing Shou Fang Investment and Consulting Company.

He is alleged to have received gains totaling RMB$125m by using his company’s influence to recommend securities through various media outlets. According to the indictment, Wang manipulated the market 55 separate times from 2007-2008, and traded 38 types of securities including ICBC and China Unicom shares.

The Hefei Municipal Intermediate People’s Court in Anhui province has also commenced proceedings against Wang’s two older brothers – Wang Jianhua and Wang Qianyi – along with Zhao Zihong, Wang’s ex-brother-in-law. They are charged with money laundering and helping Wang conceal illegal earnings of more than RMB$385m. ALB

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