UAE
Dubai: Gang Smuggled $130M Hidden Inside Suitcases on Business Class Flights
Members of a criminal gang based in the UK caught smuggling millions of dollars in cash into Dubai have been convicted.
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced that eleven couriers have been convicted in a massive criminal network from the UK smuggled £104m ($130m) in cash into Dubai.
UAE authorities supported the UK’s NCA to help secure the convictions against cash smugglers.
On Tuesday, UK nationals Beatrice Auty, Jonathan Johnson, and Jo Emma Larvin were handed guilty verdicts by a UK court.
The criminal network smuggled suitcases full of cash from the UK to Dubai during 83 separate trips between November 2019 and October 2020, overseen by ringleader Abdullah Alfalsi, 47, who was jailed for more than nine years in July last year.
