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Money laundering network which smuggled more than £100m in cash from Heathrow to Dubai Sentenced

Six more defendants have now been sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court for participation in a money laundering network which smuggled more than £100m in cash from Heathrow to Dubai, after what HHJ Paneth described as an extremely impressive investigation by the National Crime Agency. Each had travelled business class with suitcases containing between £1m and £3m a trip.

Beatrice Auty, who was convicted by the jury of assisting in the removal of around 1½ tonnes of cash, received a sentence of 3½ years’ imprisonment.  This brings the total number of defendants sentenced so far to nine, with the ringleader, Abdulla Alfalasi, having received 9 years 7 months imprisonment after pleading guilty last year. Six more couriers await trial, and three more are to be sentenced following guilty pleas.  The cases are being prosecuted by Julian Christopher KC and Janet Weeks, instructed by John Werhun of the CPS Serious Economic Organised Crime and International Directorate.

 

Press:

Head of ‘colossal’ UK-Dubai money-laundering gang jailed for nine years | Crime | The Guardian 

Cash mules guilty of transporting millions to Dubai in suitcases - BBC News