Member of the Board Lars Söderfjell and the former CEO of Swedish biometrics firm Fingerprint Cards Johan Carlström have been taken into custody for alleged market abuse in conjunction with the company's profit warning in December 2016.The company has said its operations are not affected by these events. No decisions have been made regarding Lars Söderfjell's participation in the Board. At the moment, the Company has no further comments.”We take very seriously on these events and the information that now has come to our attention. We are of course cooperating with the Swedish Economic Crime Authority”, says Jan Wäreby, Chairman of the Board at Fingerprint Cards.Last December, Swedish biometrics firm Fingerprint Cards has been fined by Nasdaq Stockholm's regulations authority for a regulations breach, with a punitive fine of SEK 916.496 ($100,000) imposed on the company.The Disciplinary Committee found that Fingerprint Cards acted in breach of item 3.1.5 of the Rule Book and in breach of the regulations issued by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, (Finansinspektionen), FFFS 2007:17 when publishing a revenue forecast.
Fingerprint Cards former CEO, board member arrested
