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Farage's banking past: Four firms, $771M fines, and jailed executives

Farage's banking past: Four firms, $771M fines, and jailed executives

His former employers include Credit Lyonnais, a French bank forced to hand over $771m for lying to financial watchdogs. Between 1982 and 2003, he also traded for Drexel and Refco, two businesses that famously went bust after senior executives were jailed. Although nobody suggests he committed crimes as a banker, his political party, Reform UK, is currently facing a police investigation over campaign donations.

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