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In October, Johnson was found guilty by a New York jury of nine out of 10 charges of fraud and conspiracy relating to a $3.5 billion foreign exchange transaction handled by HSBC for its client Cairn Energy.
The offending dealing took place in December 2011 when Johnson was the London-based global head of FX cash trading for HSBC, but he was not arrested until last July, when he was in New York to take up a new role with the bank.
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