Bargain Hunt expert charged with terror offences

An creation trader who appeared arsenic an adept connected the BBC's Bargain Hunt has been charged with panic offences, the Metropolitan Police has said.

Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, of West London, has been charged with 8 counts of "failing to marque a disclosure during the people of concern wrong the regulated sector", pursuing an probe into "terrorist financing".

The Met added that the alleged offences are said to person occurred betwixt October 2020 and December 2021.

Mr Ojiri, who is besides known arsenic Ochuko Ojiri, volition look astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court connected Friday.

The Met said it is the archetypal complaint of its benignant nether conception 21A of the Terrorism Act of 2000.

It added that the probe was carried retired by its specializer arts and antiques unit, alongside the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and HMRC.

Mr Ojiri is listed connected Bargain Hunt's website arsenic 1 of the show's experts. He has besides appeared connected Antiques Road Trip and Channel 5's Storage: Flog the Lot!

He besides founded Ramp Gallery, a modern creation showroom present known arsenic the Ojiri Gallery, based successful Stoke Newington successful East London.