Police investigators tracked suspicious transactions between the Middle East and London.

An art expert who appeared on the BBC’s Bargain Hunt show has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for failing to report his sale of pricey works to a suspected financier of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.

A Bargain Hunt art expert has been jailed after failing to report a series of high-value art sales to a man suspected of financing the militant group Hezbollah.