US SEC awards US$22m to ex-Monsanto executive through whistleblower programme

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Whistleblower, as a career, anyone?  Tongue It is definitely a lucrative business model, and the never short of targets, I guess. Too bad it is only available in US... Big Grin

US SEC awards US$22m to ex-Monsanto executive through whistleblower programme

31 Aug 2016 06:51
[NEW YORK] A former Monsanto Co executive who tipped the US Securities and Exchange Commission to accounting improprieties involving the company's top-selling Roundup product has been awarded more than US$22 million from the agency's whistleblower programme, the executive's lawyer said on Tuesday.

The award of US$22,437,800 was tied to an US$80 million settlement between the SEC and Monsanto in February, according to the lawyer, Stuart Meissner in New York, in a statement. It is the agency's second largest under the programme.

Mr Meissner declined to reveal the whistleblower's identity.
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