A Beijing student at a Scottish university who laundered ten of thousands of pounds for a Glasgow-based Chinese crime lord wept as she was jailed today. Xiaotong Huang, 28, laundered nearly £85,000 for the "Mr Big", or "main nominal", who travelled round Scotland in a Mercedes handing bags of cash to associates to clean.
For nearly two years, Huang, who was studying for a masters' in publishing, paid the money into her bank accounts, transferred sums, purchased "high value luxury items", and used crime cash to pay her Stirling University tuition and accommodation fees.
Tens of thousands of pounds, as well as thousands of pounds worth of expensive wine, were sent to China. Solicitor advocate Calum Weir, defending, said Huang had been "naive, and to some extent exploited".
