Deutsche Boerse says clears CEO after analysis of talks with LSE

Reuters

Published Feb 07, 2017 07:36

Deutsche Boerse says clears CEO after analysis of talks with LSE

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Boerse's (DE:DB1Gn) supervisory board backed its Chief Executive Carsten Kengeter, who is the focus of an insider trading investigation, saying it had found that talks with the London Stock Exchange had not yet started in 2015.

German police and prosecutors have searched Kengeter's office and apartment as they investigate whether secret merger talks with LSE were under way when Kengeter bought shares in his company in December 2015.