Inside-Trading Case Into $23 Million Jackpot Hangs by Thread

  • Adviser to EU judges says two traders’ privacy was breached
  • Duo were charged over allegation of suspicious gains

Photographer: Geert Vanden/Bloomberg

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The two main suspects in France’s biggest insider-trading probe are edging closer to nixing the entire case after an adviser to European Union judges suggested that their privacy rights were violated by investigators to obtain key evidence.