For the latest Stockport news sign up to the MyStockport newsletter here A self-employed accountant has handed over £1.9 million to settle a High Court civil action based on his alleged links to a criminal gang responsible for laundering £160m of drug money.
The National Crime Agency civil recovery claim drew on evidence that linked Abid Naveed to a large-scale money laundering operation, previously investigated by the NCA.
The original investigation found that profits from the illegal drugs trade were being deposited, via banks in the Manchester and Birmingham areas, into accounts held by a Manchester-based Money Service Bureau named Mian International Limited. READ MORE: 'Talented and much-loved' Manchester Met student, 21, was found
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