MANHATTAN — Francisco Abellan Villena and Guillermo Ciupiak, both of Barcelona; James B. Panther Jr. of Carlsbad, Calif., and Faiyaz Dean, of Vancouver, B.C., made $34 million by manipulating the price of (nonparty) Biozoom stock, the SEC claims in a federal complaint.
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