OREANDA-NEWS. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is finding out whether non-public information about the negotiations of OPEC+ countries in March could pass to traders ahead of time. It is reported by Bloomberg agency, citing sources familiar with the situation. According to them, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US State Department joined the inquiry.

The agency’s interlocutors said that there was a possible leak of data on a draft strategy prepared by Russia for interaction with other OPEC+ members. According to them, the Commission is interested in whether traders who had insider information could earn “hundreds of millions of dollars from illegal wagers on crude price swings.”

The identities of traders have not been established, Bloomberg’s interlocutors note, but it is known that they are not Russian officials.

One of the sources reported that suspicious futures contracts are also being investigated by the Financial Services Authority (Great Britain).