A former Goldman, Sachs & Co. vice president who was accused of stealing computer code from the company claims in a suit that the FBI put his ex-employer’s interests ahead of the interests of justice by maliciously prosecuting him.

Sergey Aleynikov claimed in the suit, filed Feb. 12 in federal court in Newark, that FBI agents Michael McSwain and Eugene Casey violated his Fourth Amendment rights when they arrested him in July 2009 for misappropriating programming for Goldman Sachs’ high-speed trading platform.

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