Barbers, minimarts, and vape shops are among the 2,700 high street businesses that have been raided in the UK’s largest ever crackdown of its kind on money laundering.
Officials state that these cash-rich establishments, which have proliferated across British high streets in recent years, can be exploited for a range of illicit activities, from disguising dirty money and hiding drugs to facilitating people trafficking and smuggling tobacco and vapes.
