Gang used WhatApp group called ‘Sunshine and lollipops’ to co-ordinate money laundering between the UK and Dubai.

Six members of a money laundering network which smuggled more than £100million from the UK to the UAE using suitcases have been jailed.

The network transported the cash to Dubai during 83 separate trips between November 2019 and October 2020, overseen by ringleader Abdullah Alfalasi, 48, who was jailed for more than nine years in July 2022.

London-based couriers Ali Al-Nawab, 40, and Mehdi Amrollahbibiyouki, 41, were among those paid up to £5,000 a trip to smuggle cash out of the country on business class flights due to the extra baggage allowance.

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