Surrey financial adviser exposed as tabloid love-rat

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A Surrey-based financial adviser has been exposed in the tabloids as a love-rat after marrying a girl he met in Las Vegas and keeping it secret from his girlfriend.

Nick Bond, of Surrey-based Offshore Qrops, went on a "lads holiday" to Las Vegas where he met US broadcast journalist Alex Gabrielson and married her in a whirlwind romance - only for his girlfriend to read about his marriage in the press, reports the Sun. Bond, a divorced father-of-two, is registered as a financial adviser with the FSA and authorised to carry out customer functions. He joined the advisery team at Offshore Qrops - which provides overseas pension transfer advice - in September 2009, having previously worked for the firm in a business development capacity. Geraint Da...

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