Navinder Sarao, autistic trader who caused $1 tn 'flash crash', avoids jail

Self-taught British day trader Navinder Sarao, who has autism and lives with his parents, has been sentenced to a year of home confinement for helping trigger a $1-trillion US stock market 'flash crash' in 2010. Sarao's lawyers said he regarded trading as a video game. The 41-year-old lost most of the $70 million he made as a trader to fraudsters.

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