A woman from Macclesfield enjoyed the high life thanks to money laundering in Holland.
The 52-year-old company director of a Manchester pharmaceutical market research company was found guilty of laundering 3.2m euros thanks to 96 fake invoices for work that was never done.
The widow lived in The Netherlands where she enjoyed the trappings of vast wealth even though she had no official income there. Now she has been sentenced, although she is not being named due to privacy laws in Holland, according to investigators.