Ex-billionaire Raj Rajaratnam spotted leaving $17.5M pad after prison release

Raj who?

Eight years after his $70 million insider trading trial shook Wall Street, former Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam is back in town — and trying his best to go unnoticed.

“Oh no, not me,” Rajaratnam, 62, told a photographer who spotted the fallen hedgie escaping his $17.5 million Sutton Place apartment on Thursday and called his name.

The denial was futile, however, as the ex-billionaire — who was leaving through a side-door service entrance — looks just as he did 11 years ago, right down to his slicked-back hair, mustache and slight limp.

Sporting a brand new iPhone, an olive golf shirt, tan pants and leather satchel, the trader-turned-convicted felon seemed to be without a care in the world as he waited near a Sutton Place doorway on 54th Street for his driver, who whisked him away in a dark blue Audi Q5 SUV.

Rajaratnam — who’s still required to check in with federal prison officials in Brooklyn — has tried to keep a low profile since he was released from federal prison in July. Staff at 60 Sutton Place were given stern warning in an e-mail to not talk to the media about the disgraced resident, one building employee told The Post.

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Rajaratnam was released from prison more than two years early thanks in part to the First Step Act, a series of criminal justice reforms that President Trump signed into law last year after Kim Kardashian lobbied for it. He had originally been sentenced to 11 years behind bars following a seven-week insider trading trial that resulted in him being found guilty on all 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud.

The founder of Galleon Group, who was reportedly worth about $700 million in 2010, had been confined to a wheelchair during his stint at the top floor of the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Mass., a minimum-security section of the federal prison overlooking Mirror Lake outside Boston, The Post has reported.

There, he was pushed around by a “manservant” and was on dialysis for his diabetes, according to earlier Post reports.