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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Callum Parke

Bargain Hunt expert loses sentence appeal over sales to ‘Hezbollah financier’

A BBC Bargain Hunt art expert jailed for failing to report a series of high-value art sales to a man suspected of financing militant group Hezbollah has lost an appeal against his sentence.

Oghenochuko Ojiri was jailed for two and a half years and a further year on licence in June for selling artwork worth around £140,000 to Nazem Ahmad, a man designated by US authorities as a suspected financier for the Lebanese organisation.

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