Kweku Adoboli was born on 21 May 1980 in Tema, Ghana, to John Adoboli, a senior United Nations official.
12 Facts About Kweku Adoboli
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Kweku Adoboli spent his early years in Israel, Syria and Iraq, before moving to the United Kingdom in 1991.
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Kweku Adoboli attended Ackworth School in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, where he was head boy.
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Kweku Adoboli entered false information into UBS's computers to hide the risky trades he was making.
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On 15 September 2011, Kweku Adoboli was arrested by City of London Police and charged with two counts of fraud by abuse of position and four counts of false accounting.
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Kweku Adoboli was in prison on remand until 8 June 2012, when he was granted bail subject to being electronically tagged and placed under curfew at a friend's house.
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Kweku Adoboli served out his sentence at HMP The Verne in Dorset, HMP Ford in West Sussex, and HMP Maidstone in Kent.
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Kweku Adoboli was served with deportation proceedings in July 2015, and stayed with friends in London and Edinburgh.
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Kweku Adoboli lost his original appeal against the Home Secretary's order of deportation made against him in July 2016, and continued to appeal.
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Kweku Adoboli was eventually denied permission for a judicial review and his deportation was scheduled for September 2018.
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Kweku Adoboli stated that he believed his deportation was due to the Home Office hostile environment policy on immigration.
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Kweku Adoboli was deported to his native Ghana on 14 November 2018 after his appeals against deportation were turned down.