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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is charging Linkbrokers Derivatives LLC with involvement in an $18 million fraud scam . The New York-based firm, which is no longer a broker-dealer, is settling the charges by paying $14 million.

According to the regulator, brokers at Linkbrokers secretly manipulated the costs of securities trades that it processed. They promised low commission fees and then charged fees that were 1,000% more than what they misrepresented they would be.

Over 36,000 transactions were involved in the securities fraud, which took place between 2005 and 2009. The SEC has already charged a number of brokers at Linkbrokers’ cash equities desk over this matter.