Oghenochuko Ojiri, who has participated in the BBC programs "Bargain hunt" and "Antiques road trip", has admitted to eight offenses against the British terrorism legislation. He is sentenced to prison for two and a half years.
Ojiri had sold art for 140,000 pounds, equivalent to just over 1.8 million kronor, to a man who has sanctions against him from the UK and the USA because he is suspected of financing Hizbollah. The art deals took place between October 2020 and December 2021. The sanctions were designed to prevent anyone in the UK and the USA from doing business with the man or his companies.
"This prosecution, which used a special terrorism law, is the first of its kind and should be a warning to all art dealers that we can and will prosecute anyone who knowingly does business with individuals identified as financiers of terrorist groups", says Dominic Murphy, head of the London police's terrorist investigation unit, in a comment.
