How the law finally caught up with Florian Homm

After years on the run, rogue financier Florian Homm's life as a fugitive came to a dramatic end in Florence's Uffizi gallery.

Even before he disappeared over five years ago leaving a $200m trail of investors' losses behind him the German hedge-fund manager they called "the steamroller" had a flair for drama.

How fitting then, says David Randall in The Independent, that Florian Homm was arrested last weekend in Florence's Uffizi gallery: a memorable end to his career as "one of the world's most wanted fugitive financiers".

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