Time is running out for Kweku Adoboli to avert deportation. The former banker convicted of rogue trading has been moved to a detention center pending his removal to his native Ghana.
Kweku Adoboli's options are rapidly diminishing: the 38-year-old is poised to be removed from the U.K. on Tuesday and deported to Ghana, according to several media outlets.
He was convicted of a $2 billion rogue trading scheme in 2012. Since his release from prison three years ago, he has spoken out on the culture in investment banking. He has lived with friends in Edinburgh after being served with deportation papers since 2015, meaning he cannot work (he was barred from the securities industry following his conviction).
114 MPs Objected
Aboboli doesn't have a passport from Ghana, a country he last lived in when he was four years old. If the west African nation can issue one sooner than early next week, Adoboli will be deported earlier than Tuesday, according to reports.
The son of a former Ghana diplomat, Adoboli has lived in Britain since the age of 12. His deportation, based on U.K. law of removing criminal foreigners, was fought by 114 members of British parliament. A crowdfunding campaign to help defray his legal costs raised nearly £20,000 ($26,050) in several weeks.
