Ex-UBS Trader Wins Last-Minute Bid to Delay Deportation

  • Spokesman says former banker may be released during review
  • Adoboli was scheduled to be deported to Ghana Tuesday by U.K.

Kweku Adoboli in 2011.

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

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Kweku Adoboli, a former UBS Group AG trader in London jailed in 2012 for causing a $2.3 billion loss at the bank, won a last-minute reprieve from his deportation to Ghana.

Adoboli will get another judicial review of the decision to deport him, his spokesman Nick Hopewell-Smith said Monday in an email. The 38-year-old was to leave Tuesday under rules that require foreign nationals who have been sentenced to more than four years in prison be deported automatically, unless there is a strong public interest in favor of them staying.