The National Crime Agency says a Loughborough-based businessman has agreed to hand over assets worth £500,000 to settle a civil recovery claim following alleged links to money laundering.
The agency said Leicestershire Police began investigating in 2009, after it became aware of funds being paid through a money service business account called ‘Route of Asia’.
It said that led them to suspect the owner, Salim Miah – who, according to Companies House, was born in January 1974, and who previously owned the Warwick Arms in Loughborough – was operating a “large scale money laundering scheme”, moving funds out of the UK.
