Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS trader convicted of fraud, has been deported to Ghana, despite a long campaign to keep him in Britain.
His lawyer confirmed he was flown out of Heathrow Airport this evening after being detained in Scotland on Monday.
Adoboli, aged 38 and who has lived in the UK for 26 years, was said to be in a distressed state before he left.
The Home Office declined to comment on the reports.
Mr Adoboli's local MP, Hannah Bardell, told the BBC he would be flown to Casablanca and then on to Ghana.
The MP, who has campaigned to stop the deportation, spoke to him on the phone before his departure and said he was "struggling not to break down".
'Punished twice'
"This is a travesty of justice. Kweku has been here since he was 12 and he would have been entitled to British citizenship," she said.
"No one is saying he hasn't committed a crime, but he has been rehabilitated and is being punished twice."
Nick Hopewell-Smith, one of the lawyers acting on behalf of Adoboli, said: "We are deeply upset about the manner in which he was whisked away, because there was no chance to say goodbye.
"His friends and all his supporters will keep campaigning to bring him home because this is his home.
"He supports Leeds United. He's a Yorkshireman. He is being sent to a place where he hasn't lived since he was four."
'Compelling reasons'
Adoboli served four years of a seven-year sentence for a £1.4bn fraud and was released in 2015.
He was born in Ghana but left when he was four and has lived in the UK since he was 12.
He is leaving behind his partner Alice, with whom he had been living in Livingston, West Lothian.
Immigration minister Caroline Nokes had said that all foreign nationals sentenced to more than four years' imprisonment are subject to automatic deportation, unless there are compelling reasons for them to remain.
Adoboli was expected to be put on a charter flight in September, but a judge awarded a last-minute reprieve while his case was reviewed.
Since then, more than 74,000 people have signed a petition against Adoboli's deportation, with more than 130 members of the UK and Scottish parliaments signing a letter asking Home Secretary Sajid Javid to intervene.
Ms Bardell said Adoboli's team would now explore further legal means of securing his return, but said doing so could prove difficult from overseas.
Adoboli was found guilty of booking fictitious trades to cover up big losses during the financial crisis between 2008 and 2011.
He pleaded not guilty, saying his senior managers knew what he was doing and encouraged him to take risks.
Source: BBC
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@truth is spot on. if they do not have use for you, they will discard you like toilet paper. This is a lesson to us. When prince Charles danced without rythim recently in Ghana we thought he liked us. No way. He was doing that for their own interest. The whiteman will never do anything to benefit a blackman. We should bear this in mind. Bro welcome home. Thingsa like this will only make you strong for I beleive you were not alone in taking that risk but when it came to the crucial point, they left you to rot. Look at the day they promounced the final judgement for the appeal. On the day that all lences were turned on the so called deal that Theresa May tabled to the cabinet. The whole system wanted to punish you. Just after the decision, he was whisked to the airport and striaghtaway put on a flight. There was collusion throughout the system. How did they get the flight for him immediately after the judgement? How come the vans were waiting for him to drive him to the airport? How did they know that the judge will reject his appeal? British justice indeed.
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Akuffo Addo government do not WASTE such a talent. The man that first hacked into computers was arrested 3 and jailed and later released and the USA government offered him a job to help SHAPE the loop holes in the system. Ghana government can do the same with this young man. Finally to the BRITS when he was making money for them they kept him now that they did not benefits from his services they sent him to Ghana. Hmm.
I doubt. I think he only used a gh passport
Oh No! this is wrong! I'm really upset about this news.
Home sweet home. You are most welcome
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Welcome home country man, please contact the bank of Ghana immediately for a job. You can help a lot in the present reshaping of our local banks...