UNITED STATES DISTRICiT\fQCORESKA SOUTHERN DISTRICT OD~i& ; U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION, eN 6~60 Case No. ,. Plaintiff v. COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF AND CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES UNDER THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT OPTIVER US, LLC, OPTIVER HOLDING BV, OPTIVER VOF, CHRISTOPHER DOWSON, BASTIAAN V AN KEMPEN, AND RANDAL MEIJER Defendants. J alleges as follows: . . i. SUMMARY OF DEFENDANTS' MANIPULATION OF THE ENERGY MARKETS AND VIOLATIONS OF THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT 1. In early 2007, Defendants Optiver US, LLC ( Optiver ), Optiver Holding BV C' Optiver Holding ), and Optiver VOF C'Optiver VOF ) - the U.S. and Netherlards branches of a global proprietar trading fund headquartered in the Netherlands - developed and, in March 2007, implemented a scheme to manipulate the price of futures contracts in Light Sweet Crude Oil, New York Harbor Heating Oil, and New York Harbor Gasoline on the New York Mercantile Exchange C' NYMEX ). 2. On at least 19 separate instances during the month of March 2007, Optiver, Optiver Holding, and Optiver VOF, led by head traders, Defendant Chrstopher Dowson C'Dowson ) and Defendant Randal Meijer (' Meijer ), repeatedly attempted to manipulate market pric es - o r in Dowson's own wo rds, 'bully th e market - for the abov e-referenced e nergy
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