Navinder Singh Sarao is facing an extradition hearing over his alleged involvement in the brief but spectacular US stock market collapse of 2010Typically,in dramas involving a villain who threatens the security of the world’s financial markets, the criminal tends to be holed up in a futuristic pile located on some glamorous yet unregulated island. You know the sort of thing: Christopher Lee on Khao Phing Kan in The Man with the Golden Gun; any banker on Manhattan.
In real life, and it rarely works out like that,not least regarding the allegations being made by US authorities against Navinder Singh Sarao - the British trader who supposedly contributed to the 2010 “flash crash.
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Source: theguardian.com