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Kweku Adoboli at risk of deportation after judicial review denied
Former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli could be detained by the Home Office next week and deported, after having been denied permission for a judicial review of his case.
Mr Adoboli, known for his role in Britain's biggest ever fraud which saw him lose UBS $2.3bn (£1.8bn) through unauthorised trades and handed a seven-year sentence, has been battling attempts to have him deported to Ghana, where he was born, for years.
He was released from prison in 2015, after having served half of his sentence.
The 38-year-old has not lived in Ghana since he was four, and has been living in the UK since he was 12 years old. However, under UK immigration law, foreign nationals can be subject to automatic deportation if they have been convicted in the UK and are served prison sentences of longer than 12 months.
According to The Financial Times, which first reported Mr Adoboli was on the verge of being deported, he is due to report to the Home Office on Monday, at which point he could be detained and deported.
A court earlier this week ruled that the Home Office could be allowed to deport him, after refusing his request for a judicial review of the case, saying the challenge was "very substantially out of time".
Mr Adoboli had confessed to his rogue trades in an email to UBS management in 2011, resulting in his arrest, although he later pleaded not guilty.
“I fought the trial not because I thought I would win but because no-one in finance ever realises how close they are to the imaginary, transitory red line until they cross it and get smashed in the face by a million camera lenses,” he had told The Financial Times at the time.
Neither Mr Adoboli nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment.
The Home Office said: “All foreign nationals who are given a custodial sentence will be considered for removal.
“Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes in the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them and we have removed more than 42,800 foreign offenders since 2010.”