Sri Lanka, Feb. 23 -- In a startling case of illegal trade of corporate communication, a man from the state of Texas in the United States made nearly $2 million by illegally trading his wife's conversations with her BP Plc colleagues when she was working from home, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission in its latest case.

The husband in question, identified as certain Tyler Loudon, bought shared in TravelCenters of America Inc., the SEC said in its filing on Thursday (Feb 21).

He made a whopping $1.76 million in profits when BP announced it was buying truck stop and travel center company TravelCenters of America at a 74 per cent premium. Because he knew of this buyout since his wife, then a BP mergers and acquisitions m...