A conniving student who used the rail network to transport more than £400,000 of illegal money across the country before turning himself in has been sentenced, following a British Transport Police investigation. Yuming Dong, aged 21, a former engineering student, was found guilty of money laundering at Manchester Crown Court.
On Thursday (July 28) a judge sentenced him to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for two years. Dong was part of a complex and sophisticated Chinese Underground Banking Scheme which operated among students at the University of Manchester.
Dong operated as a courier, travelling on at least two occasions between London and Manchester to transport more than £400,000 of illicit cash to be used as a cash pool. On one of these occasions, on the evening of February 4, 2019, Dong texted BTP on 61016 claiming there was a suspicious person on board the service carrying a large yellow suitcase.
