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Trio face long jail terms for £180m drugs money laundering scheme

Wed, Apr 16, 2014

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/180m-drugs-money-laundering-scheme-6994656

A Heywood man is among three facing lengthy jail terms for their role in a criminal network which laundered £180m for drug lords.

The trio, from Heywood, Rochdale and Oldham, were convicted over a scheme which allowed drug bosses to access their illegal cash from anywhere in the world.

Ali Usman , 32, Aqueel Yousaf, 28, and Naiz Ali, 23, were all convicted of money laundering after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court and will be sentenced at a later date.

They were part of a highly-sophisticated operation used by organised crime groups.

Police say that at least £180m of illegal cash was channelled through the group but the actual sum could be far higher.

The court heard how the bulk of the cash was channelled through an inconspicuous high street store in Cheadle.

Sentences totalling more than 140 years have already been handed down to others involved in the scheme.

This includes 11 years for Muhammad Younas, 40, of Granville Road, Cheadle, who ran Mian International Ltd, a Manchester money service business.

The company bank accounts processed in excess of £160m between 2008-2011, all of which was turned into US dollar accounts before being transferred to Asia and the Middle East.

One method of money laundering used by members of the crime group was known as ‘cuckoo smurfing’.

This involved criminal cash being put into the bank accounts of unwitting recipients, typically students from Iran who were expecting transfers from home into their UK accounts.

They instead found that money was being paid into their accounts from seemingly random locations in the UK. Investigators believe that replacing legitimate money with criminal cash in this way made other, ‘clean’, money available to overseas organised criminals.

The three men in the dock – Usman, of Trippear Way, Heywood, and his accomplices Yousaf, of Laburnum Avenue, Chadderton, and Ali, of Firestation Yard in Rochdale – were involved in more than £500,000 of laundering using this method.