Bargain Hunt star Ochuko Ojiri was today jailed for two-and-a-half years after admitting a terror charge for selling £140,000 worth of art to a suspected Hezbollah backer.
The art dealer, who has also appeared on the BBC's Antiques Road Trip, sold the works to Nazem Ahmad, a wealthy collector and diamond dealer who was under US sanctions.
Ojiri bowed his head in the dock as the sentence was handed down at the Old Bailey. In addition to his custodial sentence, he was told he would serve one more year on licence.
The 53-year-old knew Ahmad's background and sought to hide his links to him by doctoring invoices on the art sales and storing his name under an alias on his mobile phone, the court heard.
Prosecutors said he was motivated by greed and a desire to 'boost the reputation' of his business, the Shoreditch-based Ojiri Gallery, by 'dealing with such a well-known collector'.
