Ex-Prem footballer turned 'financial consultant' declared bankrupt

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Former Charlton Athletic FC footballer Richard Rufus, who later began a career as a 'financial consultant', has been declared bankrupt.

Rufus, who played almost 300 games for Charlton in ten years with the club, was officially declared bankrupt at Croydon County Court on 22 October under his full name, Richard Raymond Rufus. He is listed as inactive in the financial services register, having had a CF30 customer controlled function at Surrey-based stockbroker SI Capital between June 2009 and February 2011. Rufus had previously entered into an Individual Voluntary Arrangement in November 2011, after a bankruptcy petition was served by the FSA. He had reportedly incorporated Monopoly Trading and Investments in January...

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