Currency trader reveals extent of hostility

GURVIN SINGH SAYS HE HAD TO COPE WITH DEATH THREATS

- WILLIAM TELFORD

THE former Plymouth student at the center of a BBC investigation into speculative currency trading has revealed how he received death threats and needed counselling for depression after the foreign exchange market crashed and people he had enticed into trading lost thousands of pounds.

Gurvin Singh – who was the main focus of the four-part expose Scam City: Money, Mayhem, and Maseratis – has revealed he lost more than £100,000 when the market tanked in December 2019.

Mr. Singh, who famously drove around Plymouth in a gold Maserati sports car, also admitted he had given away £2,000 to strangers in Cornwall Street in late 2019 because it was a cheaper way of advertising his forex activities than taking out adverts on social media.