October 15, 2019

Fabio Bretas de Freitas and Phy Capital Investments LLC have been ordered to pay approximately $23 million in penalties, restitution, disgorgement, and interest, for their roles in $7 million Ponzi-like scheme.  To carry out the scheme, Bretas and Phy falsely represented that they had developed propriety software capable of netting a 49% profit on futures trading.  In addition to the monetary penalty, Bretas awaits sentencing in a related case out of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York; Bretas and Phy are also permanently banned from trading in CFTC-regulated markets.  CFTC

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