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Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, has been jailed for two years and six months for failing to declare art he sold to a suspected financier of proscribed terror group Hezbollah.

It's understood to be the first prosecution of its kind.

Ojiri admitted eight counts under the Terrorism Act 2000 for failing to make a disclosure during the course of business before his sentencing at the Old Bailey on Friday.

Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said:

“This prosecution, using specific Terrorism Act legislation, is the first of its kind and should act as a warning to all art dealers that we can, and will, pursue those who knowingly do business

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