CHICAGO — A futures trader has been arrested in Great Britain for his alleged involvement in the “Flash Crash” of 2010 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 600 points in five minutes.
A statement from the U.S. Department of Justice says authorities arrested 37-year-old Navinder Singh Sarao in Britain on Tuesday. Authorities on the same day unsealed a federal criminal complaint filed in Chicago.
The complaint accuses the trader, from the west London suburb of Hounslow, of using an automated trading program to manipulate the market for E-Mini S&P 500 futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
The statement says the U.S. is seeking his extradition. He faces commodities fraud and manipulation charges, among other counts.
The name of a defense attorney wasn’t available in the unsealed documents.
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