A heroin dealer who lived "an extremely lavish lifestyle" using £300,000 of his laundered drug money has been handed another prison sentence.
Mahmood Hussain, 45, was caged for 13 years in 2019 for supplying over £6million of the class A drug, writes The Manchester Evening News.
Specialist officers then immediately began investigating the dealer's financial affairs.The experts spent several months poring over his accounts without making any real headway.They discovered that Hussain owned no houses and only made a tiny profit from his three car firms.
He also had close to no money in his personal bank accounts.Yet at his home address, officers discovered a large variety of designer clothes, handbags, shoes and jewellery worth thousands of pounds.It was also unveiled that he had funded deposits, home improvements and mortgage payments on two houses that were in the names of family members.These included a hot tub, walk-in wardrobe filled with designer gear and an illuminated stairway.
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