Ex-trader is facing exile
MORE than 73,000 people have signed a petition against the deportation of a former UBS trader who was jailed for fraud in 2012.
Kweku Adoboli was found guilty of two counts of fraud that resulted in losses of £1.4billion and was released after serving half of his seven-year sentence.
Since then, he has been involved in teaching at several universities and working with the Forward Institute who aim to promote responsible leadership.
Adoboli was detained during a fortnightly check-in at Livingston police station on September 3 and taken to Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre in Lanarkshire.
The 38-year-old left BY RACHAEL BURNETT reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk Ghana at the age of four and has lived in the UK since he was 12.
More than 100 MPs and MSPs have written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid urging him to intervene in the case.
Adoboli’s partner Alice Gray said she has visited him every day since his detention and that he is “in good spirits”.
She added: “He deserves to be here, he’s doing incredibly important work.”
Adoboli faces being put on a deportation charter flight to Ghana on Tuesday.
The Home Office said: “Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes in the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.” ADORED Kim Jong-un pictured before the Mass Games THE boundary between fiction and reality is often absurdly blurred in the strange illusory land that is North Korea.
Nothing is quite what it seems. A folding factory chair is encased in a glass box because the visiting Supreme Leader once sat on it.
A spanking modern six-lane motorway is all but deserted.
And a factory boss sheds what look like genuine tears over the dangers faced by roly-poly dictator Kim Jong-un on his foreign visits.
We take tea with a “normal” family, speak to student teachers, witness “world class” cosmetics being made and see how an “idyllic co-op farm” operates.
But from the moment we arrive, senior officials from the Ministry of Information watch our every move. We are ordered not go anywhere or talk to anyone without them.
And we are warned that if we are seen without our government- MAKE-UP Workers at the ‘best’ cosmetics factory BY RUSSELL MYERS in Pyongyang, North Korea issued “Press” armbands we will face immediate expulsion.
Officials delight in telling us how “extremely privileged” we are to be there after previously daring to report on “untruths”. We will soon see for ourselves the reality of “great Korea” where all live in “happiness and harmony”.
As mother-of-two Sung Song Gi shows us round her Pyongyang apartment, I can’t help notice the triumphant photographs and posters covering the walls.
As chief of a glass factory, she had been allowed to attend the latest summit of the Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
She was one of just 3000 delegates. We are, indeed, in most distinguished company.
With introductions out of the way, Mrs Sung does not hesitate to sing the party line. What she said, according to our government minder, is: “In Korea, we are one PLAY AND DISPLAY Children and nursery teacher in unison heart united and this is our reality.
“The Korean people are always thinking and feeling as one, united as one heart.
“I am proud of this – that our Supreme Leader is the best leader in the world and I am happy that he is the leader of us in Korea.”
The Supreme Leader was re-elected unanimously at the May 2016 meeting.
Nobody was very surprised as the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” is a one-party state ruled with an iron fist by Kim, the third SUNG SONG GI MUM-OF-TWO PRAISES KIM JONG-UN ON DAILY MIRROR’S VISIT in line of a family dynasty in power since 1948.
Intrigued, I press her on whether she thinks everyone – even the farmers who toil in the fields – believe as she does.
Mrs Sung replied: “We believe the party will provide everything for us for we are all the same, the worker in the factory, the road sweeper, the farmer.
“You will find it difficult to believe this is true but this is the reality that we are all looked after by the Workers’ Party. Our Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un always says that is the happiness of all the Korean peoples.
“This is the principle, this is the policy for us. We are happy and proud to be working for the country to move forward.”
Mrs Sung introduces her daughter and son-in-law, who treat us to world-class operatic piano performances. Then, slightly oddly, they switch to Phantom of the Opera followed by Sinatra classic