Musk sued over buying Twitter splits at artificipartner low prices by US finance regulator | US News

Elon Musk is being sued for flunking to disshut his buy of more than 5% of Twitter stock in a timely create.

The world’s wealthyest man bought the stock in March 2022 and the grumblet by the US Securities and Exalter Comleave oution (SEC) shelp the postpone apverifyed him to carry on buying Twitter stock at artificipartner low prices.

In papers filed in Washington DC federal court, the SEC shelp the shift apverifyed Mr Musk to underpay by at least $150m (£123m).

The comleave oution wants Mr Musk to pay a civil fine and give up profits he was not entitled to.

In response to the legal case a lawyer for the multi-billionaire shelp: “Mr Musk has done noskinnyg wrong and everyone sees this sham for what it is.”

An SEC rule insists spendors to disshut wiskinny 10 calfinishar days when they pass a 5% ownership threshbetter.

The SEC shelp Mr Musk did not disshut his state until 4 April 2022, 11 days after the deadline – by which point he owned more than 9% of Twitter’s splits.

Twitter’s split price rose by more than 27% chaseing Mr Musk’s disclocertain, the SEC grasped.

Mr Musk postpoinsistr buyd Twitter for $44bn (£36bn) in October 2022 and renamed the social media site X.

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