Working together, they eventually tracked down birth records from 1946, months after the end of World War Two.
Gavin Irwin, representing Ojiri, said the art expert's "humiliation is complete" with the star losing "his good name" and the "work he loves.""He'd like to apologise for undermining trust" in the art market, Mr Irwin said, adding Ojiri had been naïve.
Ojiri's motivation appeared "to be financial along with a broader desire to boost his gallery's reputation within the art market by dealing with such a well-known collector," said Bethan David, head of the CPS Counter Terrorism Division."This prosecution is believed to be the first of its kind, and the CPS will not hesitate to bring criminal charges against individuals who flout the law in this way."So how did an art expert, famous for appearing on UK daytime television get mixed up in funding Hezbollah?
The Old Bailey heard UK law enforcement had been alerted to suspicious transactions linked to Mr Ahmad by their counterparts in the US.Mr Ahmad was sanctioned in 2019 by US authorities because he is believed to be a top donor to Lebanon-based Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim political and military group, which is backed by Iran and banned as a terrorist organisation by the US and UK.
Hezbollah used Mr Ahmad, who has joint Lebanese-Belgian nationality, "to launder substantial amounts of money bound for the terrorist group", according to the US Treasury department.
It claims he has longstanding ties with the illegal trade in "blood diamonds.""Surely if you had loved them, then you would have immediately notified the medical authorities?" Dr Rogers asked.
Ms Patterson said she didn't tell doctors about the possibility that wild mushrooms had been unintentionally included because the lunch guests were already getting treatment for death cap mushroom poisoning."Even after you were discharged from hospital you did not tell a single person that there may have been foraged mushroom used in the meal," Dr Rogers said.
"Instead you got up, you drove your children to school... and drove home. And then you got rid of the dehydrator.""Correct," Ms Patterson said.