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Josh Salisbury

Cash couriers who smuggled £100million out of UK in suitcases sentenced

Six members of a money laundering network which smuggled more than £100million from the UK to the UAE using suitcases have been jailed.

The network transported the cash to Dubai during 83 separate trips between November 2019 and October 2020, overseen by ringleader Abdullah Alfalasi, 48, who was jailed for more than nine years in July 2022.

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