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Elon Musk sued by SEC over 2022 Twitter stock purchases

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit this week against former Twitter owner Elon Musk X over his purchase of Twitter stock in 2022.

The complaint alleges that Musk failed to timely disclose that he had purchased more than 5% of Twitter's common stock in March of that year.

The SEC said this allowed Musk to continue buying stocks on Twitter at artificially low prices, underpaying him by $150 million.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit this week against former Twitter owner Elon Musk over his purchase of Twitter stock in 2022. (Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images/Getty Images)

Musk began acquiring Twitter in April 2022 and completed the sale in October of the same year.

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He paid $44 billion for the social media platform.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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