Nature Cell Mired In Uncertainty as CEO Arrested For Alleged Stock Price Manipulation
Executive Summary
The Korean biotech’s CEO and several other executives’ alleged involvement in stock price manipulation using false and exaggerated information on a pipeline stem cell therapy has damaged the credibility of its R&D efforts and shocked the domestic industry, although their fate remains to be determined after court trials.
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