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CFTC Orders $850,000 in Penalties and Restitution in Forex Fraud Case

This week, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed and simultaneously settled charges against Alexandre P. Guimaraes and his company, ACI Capital Group, L.L.C. for fraudulently soliciting customers to trade off-exchange foreign currency contracts (“forex”).  According to the Order Instituting … Continue reading

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SEC Files Litigated Action Against China Natural Gas, Inc. and Its Chairman and Former CEO

SEC v. China Natural Gas, Inc. and Qinan Ji, Case No. 12-cv-3824 (PGG).  The SEC filed suit on May 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against China-based China Natural Gas, Inc. and its … Continue reading

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