Over the past few weeks I have received
a number of emails from constituents expressing their concerns about the
deportation of Kweku Adoboli, a
former investment manager and rogue trader who was convicted of illegally
trading away $2 billion as a trader for the Swiss investment bank UBS.
Mr
Adoboli was due to be deported to Ghana on Tuesday 18 September.
This is
because under UK law, if a foreign national is sentenced to more than four
years in jail, deportation is deemed to be in the interest of the public
“unless there are very compelling circumstances”. Mr Adoboli was found guilty
at Southwark Crown Court of two counts of fraud by abuse of position in 2012
and sentenced to seven years for fraud.
Commenting
on Mr Adoboli’s case, the Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes MP said:
“Although Mr Adoboli’s offence was not one of violence, he committed a serious
offence and this was reflected in the length of his sentence. Financial crime,
like all crime, has an impact on the society that we live in and the public
expects robust action to be taken against foreign nationals who abuse our
hospitality by committing crime.”
On the day
he was due to be deported, Mr Adoboli was granted a last-minute injunction blocking
his deportation. The outcome of his case will now depend on the conclusion of a
judicial review on the matter, scheduled for 23 October.
I fully
appreciate my constituents’ concerns for Mr Adoboli and will be following the
developments of his case closely.
