BBC expert jailed over art sales to 'Hezbollah financier'

NAMPA / DPA

2025-06-06

London (PA Media/dpa) - An art expert with the BBC TV programme "Bargain Hunt" who failed to report a series of high-value art sales to a man suspected of financing the Hezbollah militant group has been jailed for two and a half years. Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, sold artwork worth around £140,000 (nearly $190,000) to Nazem Ahmad, a man designated by US authorities as a suspected financier for the Lebanese organisation. Ojiri, of Brent, north London,......

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