A County Durham man has appeared at court to deny a charge relating to the transfer of criminal cash between UK bank accounts.
Phillip Hall is one six people accused of conspiring to conceal, disguise, convert, transfer or remove criminal property.
The 44-year-old from Spennymoor appeared at Durham Crown Court on Friday, where he pleaded not guilty to the single charge.
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He is alleged to have carried out the offence between January 1, 2014 and September 11, 2019.
The charge states he allegedly, "conspired together with other persons to conceal, disguise, convert, transfer or remove criminal property, namely cash , by means of using the UK banking system to transfer cash between accounts and into accounts."
Ian Mullarkey, prosecuting, said there are five other co-accused in the case and that a trial, which is estimated to last around three weeks, has been fixed for next year.
Hall's co-accused are Christopher Taylor, 48, Laura Randall, 36, Andrew David Brown, 35, Tony Brown, 36, and Iris Taylor, 84.
The other defendants appeared at the court earlier this month to deny the charge.
Iris Taylor was absent from the hearing.
At the hearing on Friday, Mr Mullarkey said the trial is scheduled to begin on February 20, next year, and will be held at Newcastle Crown Court.
Recorder Andrew Dallas told Hall, of Newtown Bungalows, Spennymoor, that another hearing would take place on July 8 for further directions.
He was bailed until his next court appearance.
