UK Art Dealer Pleads Guilty to Selling Art to Suspected Hezbollah Financier
09-05-2025 20:29 via artnews.com

UK Art Dealer Pleads Guilty to Selling Art to Suspected Hezbollah Financier

A London art dealer recently pled guilty to selling artworks to a collector sanctioned by the US government since 2019 for giving money to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group.Oghenochuko Ojiri pled guilty today to eight charges of failing to disclose potential terrorist financing during a court hearing in London. On May 8, he was charged by Metropolitan Police as “the first person to be charged with a specific offence under section 21A of the Terrorism Act 2000.”The char
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