EADS accused by watchdog

France's stock market regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), has charged EADS with misleading investors on at least three occasions before the Franco-German aerospace and defence group issued its shock profit warning in June 2006.

ESO: Background information http://www.europeansources.info/record/insider-dealing-case-hits-eads/

http://www.eads.com/eads/int/en/news/all-press-releases.html http://www.eads.com/eads/int/en/news/all-press-releases.html

Website: AMF http://www.amf-france.org/Default.asp?lang=en

AMF: Press Release, 4.4.08: Statement by the AMF http://www.amf-france.org/documents/general/8242_1.pdf

Mediapart: Scandale EADS: le cas Arnaud Lagardère, décortiqué par l'AMF, 8.4.08 http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie/080408/scandale-eads-le-cas-arnaud-lagardere-decortique-par-l-amf

Deutsche Welle, 9.4.08: Airbus CEO Reacts Angrily to Accusations of Insider Trading http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3255143,00.html

---