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By Nishant Kumar
Nov 7 (Reuters) - Former Moore Capital trader Julian Rifatpleaded guilty on Friday to eight instances of insider dealingin a high profile case brought by UK's Financial ConductAuthority (FCA), the regulator said in a statement.
Rifat, the third person to plead guilty in the largest andmost complex insider dealing investigation by the FCA, wasaccused of passing confidential and price-sensitive informationto an accomplice to his advantage.
The FCA said Rifat passed on inside information about eightcompanies in 2009, including UK banking group Barclays,German carmaker Volkswagen, Spanish power groupIberdrola and German retailer Metro.
The dealings led to profits of more than 250,000 pounds($395,500), the FCA statement said. It was not clear if Rifatwas the only beneficiary.
Rifat will be sentenced next year.
Earlier this year Graeme Shelley, a former broker at NovumSecurities, pleaded guilty to insider dealing with Rifat andwith another associate Paul Milsom, a former execution trader atLegal and General.
Milsom last year became the first man to be jailed afterpleading guilty in the case. ($1 = 0.6321 British Pounds) (nishant.kumar@thomsonreuters.com)