Thursday 25 Apr 2019 @ 14:15
National Crime Agency
Printable version

Closed case! Plane passenger with £1.5M in baggage ordered to give it up

A convicted money launderer tried to fly to Dubai with £1.5m

A convicted money launderer who tried to fly to Dubai with £1.5m in his suitcases has been ordered to hand over the money permanently.

Mohamed Imran Khan Sathar Khan, 35, was jailed for three years and nine months last September after admitting two counts of money laundering.

On 29 August 2018 he checked four suitcases in at Stansted Airport – each weighed 20kg and all were rammed with £10 and £20 notes.

National Crime Agency officers launched an investigation after Border Force officers stopped Khan, of no fixed abode, from boarding the aircraft.

A forfeiture order made for the cash was signed off by Canterbury Magistrates Court.

Matt Rivers from the NCA yesterday said:

“The forfeiture order demonstrates our determination to remove the proceeds of crime from organised criminals. Over the past year we have investigated cash seizures at UK borders totalling more than £8 million.

“In this case, with the help of our partners, we were able to intercept the cash during the money laundering process. Our investigation continues in relation to the wider criminal network behind this seizure."

 

Channel website: http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/

Original article link: https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/closed-case-plane-passenger-with-1-5m-in-baggage-ordered-to-give-it-up

Share this article

Latest News from
National Crime Agency

Four arrested in UK in joint NCA-French operation targeting alleged Vietnamese Facebook people smugglers

26/04/2024 16:25:00

Four Vietnamese nationals have been arrested by the National Crime Agency in Deptford, Croydon and Leicester as part of a major joint UK-French investigation into alleged small boats people smugglers advertising crossings on Facebook.

Arrests made over deadly Channel crossing

25/04/2024 16:15:00

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and entering the UK illegally, as part of an investigation into a Channel boat crossing which resulted in the deaths of a number of migrants, including a child, off the French coast recently (23 April).

Dutch national faces decade behind bars for cocaine smuggle attempt

25/04/2024 11:15:00

A 41-year-old man who was caught with a car boot full of cocaine at an Essex port has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years following a National Crime Agency investigation.

Albanian people smuggler jailed over small boats crossings

23/04/2024 15:15:15

An Albanian man who organised small boats crossings for migrants, including children as young as five, has been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation.

European police chiefs call for end-to-end encryption roll out to include public protection measures

22/04/2024 16:15:00

The Director General of the National Crime Agency and European Police Chiefs are calling for industry and governments to take urgent action to ensure public safety across technology platforms.

Pair jailed for attempt to smuggle migrants out of the UK

22/04/2024 09:15:00

Two men who attempted to smuggle migrants from the UK to France in the back of a lorry have been sentenced following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

Operation Venetic: Senior leader of Merseyside gang that shipped class A drugs between England and Scotland is convicted

17/04/2024 12:10:00

A high-ranking member of an organised crime group (OCG) that trafficked heroin and cocaine has been convicted following his extradition by the National Crime Agency.

Four arrested on suspicion of smuggling money from UK to Albania

16/04/2024 11:15:00

Four alleged members of an organised crime group that specialises in smuggling criminal cash out of the country and into Albania have been arrested in a National Crime Agency investigation.

Plumber who converted blank firing guns into lethal weapons jailed for seven years

15/04/2024 16:15:00

A plumber who converted blank firing guns into lethal weapons has been jailed for seven years and two months following a National Crime Agency investigation.