Mr Hick returned from Brazil to the UK in late 2019 to the town of Framlingham on the East coast near Ipswich.

He is renting a 3-bedroom house and until recently using lease cars to get around.

He quickly set up a company, Zurich Trading Services, which was later dissolved and the company, International Asset Services LTD, was formed. Nature of business: security dealing on own account. Full details of his business and current residence are available on Companies house website for those that may like to get in contact.

He has been careful not to acquire any assets whist in the UK until recently purchasing a Mercedes SLK sports car. This in my opinion is to protect himself from any future claims that could be made by GFX clients or from the resurrection of the expired court order that was made against him and GFX.

MAY 2024 verbal with responses from communication made with Mr Hick

Qu: what happened to client funds?
Ans: A significant bad Eur/Jpy trade on Boxing day prior to 2014 (this is not true and the trade would be clearly visible from historical trades visible on iG) index trading platform which it is not!

Qu: Can you provide details of Mathew Hale your customer liaison colleague and your computer programmer to substantiate your claims?
Ans: That’s not possible (no reason given)

Qu: Where did you learn to trade?
Ans: Self taught (that’s a worry when we believed GFX was a professional organisation)

Qu: Perhaps you can start paying people back slowly?
Ans: I only have 2 months money

Still managing to trade on his own account and can afford to rent a 3 bed house and run a car and all other living expenses enabling him to live comfortably in the UK.

Hick other comments on phone call:

• I have already handed myself into the police!!
• It nearly broke me living in a Brazilian village with no money
• You can get your money back trading my signals software

My conclusion from the phone call is that he is a pathological liar to try and cover his tracks. In my opinion he stole client funds which is now funding his lifestyle now and from when GFX was setup in 2010. I believe that once a large amount of money was acquired with the associated clients it became to difficult to maintain the charade of a legitimate business hence the need to come up with a quick get out hence a bad trade. If his claims were indeed true then why did he disappear without notice and still to this day cannot and will not substantiate his claims.