An overseas whistleblower who alerted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to ongoing fraud will receive an expected award of $30 million, breaking the agency’s record for the largest such sum it has ever paid.

SEC officials said the widespread securities violations would have been difficult to detect were it not for the whistleblower, whose identity they did not make public.

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