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AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2025-03-21

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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Kubient’s former CEO, Paul Roberts, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for orchestrating a $1.3 million revenue-inflation scheme by directing employees to fabricate test results for the company’s KAI ad-fraud detection software and falsifying financial records to support an IPO. The SEC later charged Roberts and others, while Kubient, after listing in 2020, voluntarily delisted in 2023 and terminated a planned merger in 2024, with the company appearing to have wound down.

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