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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Telegraph<\/a>: Lone trader Navinder Singh Sarao “significantly responsible” for causing the May 2010 market crash which saw the Dow Jones lose almost 1,000 points in a matter of minutes<\/p>\n A British man helped to trigger a \u00a3500bn US stock market crash by manipulating financial markets on a massive scale from a suburban London semi, US prosecutors have claimed. Man, it seems like every time I look, some British man is getting arrested for shenanigans on Wall Street. The Telegraph: Lone trader Navinder Singh Sarao “significantly responsible” for causing the May 2010 market crash which saw the Dow Jones … Continue reading
\nNavinder Singh Sarao, 36, is accused of fraudulently making \u00a327 million by using computer programmes to create fake trades on markets linked to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
\nUS investigators say he was a major contributory factor to the so-called \u201cFlash Crash\u201d of May 6, 2010, when hundreds of billions of dollars was wiped off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in just five minutes.
\nThe US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have simultaenously charged Navinder Singh Sarao with manipulating the financial markets, alleging he made more than $40m (\u00a326.7m) from his activities over a period spanning more than five years.
\nMr Sarao, who ran his own one-man day trading company, was arrested at his parents’ home in Hounslow, west London, on Tuesday at the request of American prosecutors.
\nHe now faces extradition to the US after separate criminal and civil charges were filed against him for illegally manipulating the markets.
\nNeighbours of Mr Sarao in Hounslow, west London, said he was married with two children and lived quietly in a house opposite his parents\u2019 home, where his company Nav Sarao Futures was registered.
\nHis parents, Nachattar Singh Sarao and Darshaw Kaur Sarao, bought the house in 1982 and have lived there ever since. Apart from a well-maintained front garden with a brick wall around it, the pre-war semi is no different from any other in the street.
\nOne neighbour said: \u201cThey are a quiet family, they say hello and goodbye, but that\u2019s about it. The parents both work and their son lives opposite with his wife and two daughters. No-one has ever suggested they are wealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"