Australia’s biggest insider trading heist was executed from a toilet cubicle at NAB’s Melbourne headquarters, before the case was eventually cracked with the help of Facebook and more than 80 officers from the Australian Federal Police.
Surveillance cameras installed around the bank’s dealing room in 2014 captured currency trader Lukas Kamay taking his desk phone off the hook, picking up two mobile phones and heading for the bathroom just before the release of crucial economic data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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Angus Grigg is an investigative reporter based in Sydney. He has worked as a foreign correpondent in China and Indonesia, and has won two Walkley Awards. Connect with Angus on Twitter. Email Angus at agrigg@afr.com
