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Brazil's Batista faces probe for alleged insider trading: watchdog


    RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's securities industry watchdog CVM is investigating whether Eike Batista, formerly the country's wealthiest man, engaged in insider trading, it said on Friday.

    Rio de Janeiro-based CVM said in a statement that one of more than a dozen probes into the meltdown of Batista's Grupo EBX SA includes an investigation into Batista's alleged use of privileged information as chairman of oil producer OGX Petróleo e Gás Patricitpações SA.

    Representatives of Batista and OGX, which changed its name to Óleo e Gas Participações SA after filing for bankruptcy protection in October, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    (Reporting by Juliana Schincariol and Guillermo Parra-Bernal; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)