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Bargain Hunt star jailed for selling art to suspected Hezbollah financier

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Oghenochuko Ojiri , 53 , jailed for two years and six months for failing to declare art he sold to Hezbollah financier.

He admitted eight counts of failing to make a disclosure during the course of business.

Judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said he had been aware the art he had sold was to Nazem Ahmad .

Ahmad had been sanctioned in 2019 by US authorities and banned from travelling to UK .

Ahmad 's Instagram account had 200,000 followers and he was seen as a social media influencer in the art world.

He denied being motivated by greed and said it was the kudos of dealing with a name in the collecting world.

Ahmad was charged under a section of the Terrorism Act 2000 that has never been used before.

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