A former Bargain Hunt art expert has been jailed for two years and six months for failing to declare art he sold to a suspected financier of the banned terror group Hezbollah.

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.

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.