Tags: Criminal.
Simon Gautier Hannes (born c.1960) was an Australian senior executive of Macquarie Bank convicted of insider trading over call options bought prior to the takeover of TNT (to whom Macquarie was an advisor) by the Dutch postal service (KPN) in 1996.The options were bought in the name of Mark Booth and cost about $90000. After the takeover bid they were worth over $2 million. Hannes vehemently denied he was this Booth or that he had inside information anyway.