Hedge Fund Dispute Over Fees Centers on Secretly Taped Talks
- Couple says Astra Asset Management owes them $13.9 million
- Astra says that conversations on tapes were ‘unnatural’
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A dispute over the payment of fees from London hedge fund Astra Asset Management centers on a series of secretly recorded conversations that the fund asked a judge to ignore.
Anish Mathur, a former Deutsche Bank AG trader, is fighting allegations in a London lawsuit that he stopped payments to a one-time business partner and his wife who introduced him to early clients at Astra. The couple, Saleem Siddiqi and Alexandra Galligan, say that they recorded a series of conversations in the summer of 2016 as their relationship with Mathur deteriorated.