<p>Amsterdam: Ajax Amsterdam have suspended new CEO Alex Kroes with immediate effect on suspicion he has been involved in insider trading in the club's shares, the club supervisory board said in a statement on Tuesday.</p><p>The board said it had learned Kroes had bought more than 17,000 Ajax shares a week before his intended appointment was announced on Aug. 2, 2023.</p><p>"External legal advice indicates that he likely engaged in insider trading," the board said in the statement.</p>.Destruction of Gaza's Shifa Hospital rips heart out of health system, WHO says.<p>Kroes could not immediately be reached for comment. He told Dutch news agency <em>ANP</em> he would seek a judgment by Dutch financial watchdog AFM, which oversees share trading, on his acquisitions.</p><p>Kroes' suspension is another twist in an already dramatic season for the Dutch record champion, in which they fired their technical director and head coach only a few months after appointing them and briefly found themselves at the bottom of the Eredivisie table for the first ever.</p><p>Ajax are currently in fifth place, 28 points behind league leaders PSV Eindhoven, despite spending over 100 million euros ($107 million) on new players in the close-season.</p><p>Kroes, 49, a former director at Eredivisie clubs Go Ahead Eagles and AZ Alkmaar, started his job as CEO and chairman of the board at Ajax on March 15</p>
<p>Amsterdam: Ajax Amsterdam have suspended new CEO Alex Kroes with immediate effect on suspicion he has been involved in insider trading in the club's shares, the club supervisory board said in a statement on Tuesday.</p><p>The board said it had learned Kroes had bought more than 17,000 Ajax shares a week before his intended appointment was announced on Aug. 2, 2023.</p><p>"External legal advice indicates that he likely engaged in insider trading," the board said in the statement.</p>.Destruction of Gaza's Shifa Hospital rips heart out of health system, WHO says.<p>Kroes could not immediately be reached for comment. He told Dutch news agency <em>ANP</em> he would seek a judgment by Dutch financial watchdog AFM, which oversees share trading, on his acquisitions.</p><p>Kroes' suspension is another twist in an already dramatic season for the Dutch record champion, in which they fired their technical director and head coach only a few months after appointing them and briefly found themselves at the bottom of the Eredivisie table for the first ever.</p><p>Ajax are currently in fifth place, 28 points behind league leaders PSV Eindhoven, despite spending over 100 million euros ($107 million) on new players in the close-season.</p><p>Kroes, 49, a former director at Eredivisie clubs Go Ahead Eagles and AZ Alkmaar, started his job as CEO and chairman of the board at Ajax on March 15</p>