Adoboli Detained In UK Ahead Of Deportation

Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS trader who was jailed after running up the largest unauthorised trading loss in UK history, is facing deportation from Britain to Ghana after being detained on Monday at an immigration detention centre in Scotland.

The Home Office has indicated that it intends to deport Mr Adoboli on or shortly after September 10, said a spokesman for him.

After reporting to Livingston police station on Monday, the 38-year-old was taken to Dungaval immigration removal centre at Strathaven.

Mr Adoboli, who was born in Ghana, has exhausted nearly all of his legal options trying to stay in the UK, where he has lived since he was 12.

Last month, a court ruled that the Home Office could begin the process of deporting him.

The former UBS trader was found guilty in 2012 of causing a $2.3bn unauthorised trading loss.