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The Flash-Crash Trader's Kafkaesque Nightmare

Is Navinder Singh Sarao being scapegoated?

The Hounslow headquarters of a market crash? Really? — The Hounslow headquarters of a market crash? Really?
Photographer: Simon Dawson

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June 18, 2015, 6:27 PM UTC

How do you prove you don't have $35 million of ill-gotten gains parked in an offshore account? That's the dilemma facing Navinder Singh Sarao, known variously as the "Flash-Crash Trader" and the "Hound of Hounslow" and currently residing at Her Majesty's pleasure in London's Wandsworth prison.

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