Gold bars worth £650k seized at Heathrow Airport

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The Singaporean woman was involved in a money laundering network, according to the UK National Crime Agency’s website.

She claimed she was taking transporting the gold for a jeweller in Singapore to another one in India.

They noted that she had no explanation for her strange routing via London when she could have travelled directly from Singapore to India much quicker and believed that she was instead trying to evade detection by Indian customs officials by disguising her original departure point. The bars have now been forfeited under Proceeds of Crime legislation after a hearing at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court.

“Our investigation pointed to these gold bars belonging to a criminal money laundering network active in both Europe and Asia.

 

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