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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Chris Slater

Drug dealer used his laundered cash to lead 'extremely lavish lifestyle' with flash homes, designer clothes and fancy cars

A heroin dealer who lived "an extremely lavish lifestyle" using more than £300,000 of laundered drug money has been handed another prison sentence. Mahmood Hussain, 45, from Rochdale, was caged for 13 years in 2019 after being convicted and sentenced for supplying heroin with a street value of over six million pounds.

After he was charged with those offences specialist officers immediately began probing his financial affairs, spending months scouring his accounts. They found he owned no houses, earnt "very little" from three car businesses he did own and had virtually no money in his own bank accounts.

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