article_snippet: Rifat] would be approached by investors about major deals before the information was communicated to the market in a practice known as 'wall crossing'.
article_snippet: However, Rifat] would then use the information to tip-off associate Graeme Shelley, a broker at Novum Securities Ltd, who placed trades on Rifat] behalf.
article_snippet: Mr Ellison said: 'Once the inside was wall crossed within brand the firm was restricted from trading in the stock sharing until a public announcement was made or the offer withdrawn. '
article_snippet: After he had been wall crossed, Rifat] would make the time to give Mr Shelley either a ring or a text so as to provide the inside information.'
article_snippet: You were described by one of your witnesses in relation to wall crossing as the 'go-to man' so in the organisation for which you worked if there was a question of wall crossing
article_snippet: Mr Shelley and another associate Paul Milsom, an equity dealer at Legal and General, had already pleaded guilty to insider dealing.