Foreign exchange dealer Alex Hope has been charged with perverting the course of justice, the Financial Conduct Authority has said.

Mr Hope appeared before Camberwell Green Magistrates Court this week in relation to allegations made by the FCA.

These allege that between 1 April 2016 and 28 September 2016 Mr Hope “embarked on a course of conduct” with a tendency to pervert the course of public justice, in relation to a restraint order made against him by Southwark Crown Court on 12 February 2016.

The proceedings have been transferred to the Inner London Crown Court where Mr Hope will appear on 22 December 2017.