A Dubai national alleged to be a kingpin behind the moving of more than £100million in crooked cash from the UK to the UAE has been charged with money laundering.
Abdullah Mohammed Ali Bin Beyat Alfalasi 46 was detained at his flat in Lowndes Square Belgravia on Tuesday.
Detectives interrogated him and he was indicted on one count of conspiracy to conceal, transform, transmit, or remove criminal property last December 3rd, 2019 through December 31, 31.
Prosecutors allege Alfalasi arranged the removal of around £110m from the UK via major airports to the United Arab Emirates using cash mules.
Abdullah Mohammed Ali Bin Beyat Alfalasi, 46, who is alleged to be a kingpin behind the moving of more than £100million in crooked cash from the UK to the UAE, has been charged with money laundering. Pictured is some of the money that authorities found, which was intended for Dubai
Pictured are bundles of cash that were confiscated by authorities. They had been being transported to Dubai from the UK by couriers.
According to authorities, he may have organized the transportation of 26 couriers that are believed to have sent tens to millions of criminal cash from the UK into Dubai.
Two of those couriers are already in prison – including Tara Hanlon, 31, who was jailed for nearly three years in July after being caught taking around £2million from the UK to Dubai.
She had already smuggled £3.5m in five suitcases on three different trips over a four-month period when Border Force officers stopped her at Heathrow Airport last October with the latest haul.
Alfalasi is accused of being a key figure in the global money laundering racket and was arrested during a raid on a posh flat in Belgravia, central London, where a three-bed property can sell for more than £11m.
Two of those couriers are already in prison – including Tara Hanlon, 31, (pictured) who was jailed for nearly three years in July after being caught taking around £2million from the UK to Dubai
Today, he will appear before Uxbridge Magistrates.
National Crime Agency’s investigation into international money laundering was the biggest it had ever undertaken.
Ten other suspects of money laundering were also arrested, eight of them in raids that took place in May. The NCA stated that all were released after further investigation.
National Crime Agency investigators have questioned 21 additional suspected couriers connected to this network.