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UK television art expert jailed for terror-financing breach over artwork sales

By Martin Coyle ( June 6, 2025, 16:54 GMT | Insight) -- An art dealer known from appearances on hit British television show Bargain Hunt was sentenced to two and a half years in prison today after becoming the first person to be convicted of failing to make disclosures under UK terror financing laws. The charges involved the sale of eight works of art worth to Nazem Ahmad, a Beirut-based financier for proscribed terror group Hezbollah.An art dealer known from appearances on hit British television show Bargain Hunt was sentenced to two and a half years in prison today after becoming the first person to be convicted of failing to make disclosures under UK terror financing laws....

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