A money launderer has been jailed after he was caught trying to smuggle over a million quid in suitcases via Heathrow Airport . Mazen Al Shaar, 48, was stopped on Saturday, March 15, as he was about to fly from Terminal 3 to Beirut in Lebanon.

The supermarket worker claimed to only have £500 in cash on him and that he was leaving the UK to visit family, but a bag search unearthed £1,232,880 in cash.

He was put behind bars for 21 months following a trial at Isleworth Crown Court earlier today (Friday, June 6). Peter Jones, NCA operations manager, said: “Money launderers are at the absolute centre of serious and organised crime because they enable other offenders to make money from their offences.

“Criminals who deal drugs, firearms, smuggle migrants and commit other organised crime off

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