Star securities analyst faces insider trading charges

When audiences watched Hong Kong's three sexiest men - Louis Koo Tin Lok, Daniel Wu and Sean Andy in the Chinese film, Overheard, little may they have realized how true to life it was.

The actors played police officers assigned to investigate alleged stock price manipulation, something that is not unknown in the real world.

Ye Zhigang, a star securities analyst in the Shanghai-listed Haitong Securities Co, is currently under investigation for stock price manipulation.