Bargain Hunt expert charged in terrorist financing probe

An creation adept who has featured connected BBC's Bargain Hunt has been charged with offences relating to violent financing.

Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, faces 8 counts of failing to marque a disclosure during the people of concern wrong the regulated sector, contrary to conception 21A of the Terrorism Act 2000, the Metropolitan Police said.

He is the archetypal idiosyncratic to beryllium charged with the circumstantial offence, the unit added.

Mr Ojiri, of westbound London, is owed to look astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court connected Friday.

The charges subordinate to a play from October 2020 to December 2021 and were authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service.

It follows an probe into violent financing by officers from the Met's National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit. The Treasury, HMRC and the Met's Arts & Antiques Unit were each besides involved, the unit said.

Described arsenic an "expert" successful a Bargain Hunt Q&A connected the BBC's website, Mr Ojiri said helium was "absolutely obsessed" with collecting modern art, paintings, prints, sculpture and drawings. He has besides appeared connected the BBC's Antiques Road Trip since 2021.