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Convicted bogus FX trader charged with perverting the course of justice

Alex Hope, who was handed a seven-year prison sentence in 2015, faces new charges from the UK's markets regulator

Convicted bogus FX trader charged with perverting the course of justice

The UK's financial watchdog has charged Alex Hope, a bogus foreign exchange trader who was convicted in 2015 of defrauding investors of over £5m, with perverting the course of justice.

Hope appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court yesterday in relation to the offence, the Financial Conduct Authority said in a statement.

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