EADS Managers Face Insider Trading Trial With Daimler

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Airbus chief salesman John Leahy is among seven current and former executives of European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. who face trial on charges of insider trading in shares of Europe’s biggest aerospace company.

Among the others are Alain Flourens, who leads the A380 superjumbo program, Andreas Sperl, head of an EADS unit that turns passenger jets into freighters, and Olivier Andries, who is in charge of Safran SA’s Turbomeca engines unit.