A money launderer who was part of an organised crime group had a quarter of a million pounds in cash stuffed under his bed when police raided his house. Lin Guo, 32, was stopped by officers at Canning Town Station in East London in November 2019 carrying a black rucksack with £20,000 cash wrapped in a Chinese newspaper inside, as well as £1,200 in Scottish banknotes stuffed into his pocket.
He said a set of keys that officers had found belonged to a friend and that he had been given them while walking to the station, but they actually opened the doors of his home address nearby. When police searched that address they found £252,000 in a drawer under the bed in a spare room, hidden underneath some reusable shopping bags.
There was £6,300 more in cash in a bedside table, along with two cash-counting machines and a device used to check for fake notes. Several mobile phones were found and with the help of a Chinese interpreter, officers discovered they were being used in Chinese Underground Banking.
