Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged six individuals, including hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, with insider trading on Friday. (Rajaratnam posted a $100 million bond and was ordered to remain within 110 miles of New York City, Reuters reports.)

The securities and commodities fraud task force is supervising the matter– reportedly the biggest hedge fund insider-trading scheme ever. Prosecutors and the SEC have accused the individuals of earning more than $25 million from illegal trading over three years in companies like Akamai, Google, and Hilton Hotels, the New York Times reports.

Rajaratnam’s name also allegedly turned up in a separate federal probe into the U.S. fundraising activities of the Tamil Tigers, a separatist Sri Lankan terrorist group, reports The Wall Street Journal. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn secured guilty pleas from four individuals in that investigation in June, although The Times of India reports that Rajaratnam, of Sri Lankan heritage, might not necessarily have known that donations he made to a charity were being funneled to the Tigers.

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