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UPDATE 1-Former JJB boss Jones charged over misleading market

* David Jones charged at Leeds Magistrates Court * Case to go to Crown Court * Jones chaired JJB Sports Jan. 2009 to Jan. 2010 * Jones is former boss of clothing retailer Next LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - David Jones, one of Britain's best-known retail bosses, has been charged with forgery and making misleading statements to the stock market when he ran the now collapsed JJB Sports business, the Serious Fraud Office said.

Former JJB boss David Jones charged over misleading market

LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - David Jones, the former executive chairman of collapsed British retailer JJB Sports, has been charged with forgery and making misleading statements to the market, the Serious Fraud Office said on Friday. In a statement the SFO said Jones, executive chairman of JJB between January 2009 and January 2010, was charged with two offences of making a misleading statement and one offence "of using a false instrument."
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