Disgraced stockbroker Oliver Curtis has walked free from a New South Wales jail after serving one year behind bars for insider trading.

The husband of high-profile Sydney publicist Roxy Jacenko was imprisoned in June 2016 after being found guilty of conspiring to commit 45 illicit trades through which the 31-year-old and then-friend John Hartman swindled $1.43 million.

Wearing jeans and baseball cap, Mr Curtis walked out of Cooma Correctional Centre at 8.45am on Friday flanked by a private security guard.

He made his way through the waiting media pack to a black four-wheel-drive.

The security guard told reporters, “Don’t push guys”, as Mr Curtis climbed into the back seat of the luxury car which drove directly to Cooma’s Snowy Mountains Airport 13 kilometres away.

He walked to a private plane waiting on the tarmac, reportedly booked by his wife.

The pair have two young children, Pixie, five, and Hunter, three.

An AAP photographer present at Cooma Airport said squeals of joy could be heard from the children inside the aircraft as Mr Curtis boarded just after 9am.

The plane took off at about 9.15am.

Reporters have camped out the front of the family’s Bondi Beach home in Sydney.

Ms Jacenko visited her husband regularly throughout his time in jail and it’s been reported she told their children that “daddy” was in China on business.

The Supreme Court trial was told the former banker made trades between May 27 and June 2008 based on confidential information that Hartman possessed as an employee of Orion Asset Management.

When sentencing him, Justice Lucy McCallum said the profits from the conspiracy were used to “fund a lifestyle of conspicuous extravagance”.

Profits from the scam were spent on a new Mini Cooper, a motorbike, holidays in Whistler and Las Vegas and a luxurious Bondi apartment.

The judge set a maximum of two years in jail but ordered he be released on recognisance after serving a year.

In December, Curtis’s appeal against his conviction was dismissed.

– AAP