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On December 2, 2015, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (“NYMEX”) simultaneously announced settlements with Arya Motazedi, a gasoline trader, including for claims of insider trading under CFTC Rule 180.1. On numerous occasions from approximately September to December of 2013, while trading RBOB Gasoline Physical Futures and CL Light Sweet Crude Oil Futures, Motazedi allegedly engaged in: (1) trading that moved money from his employer’s account to two of his personal accounts;2 and (2) transactions in his personal accounts, ahead of his employer’s account, to the detriment of the employer’s account. The Commission noted that Motazedi caused his employer to lose $216,955.80. https://www.cadwalader.com/resources/clients-friends-memos/cftc-cme-settle-misappropriations-case