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NEWS: Santander staff noted suspicious transfers that led to jailing of £1.5M money laundering gang

By Alisha Houlihan for AMLi

Santander Bank officials who noticed a suspicious pattern of transfers led to the arrest and imprisonment of a gang behind a money-laundering operation using student accounts.

The City of London Police’s Money Laundering Investigation Unit subsequently arrested seven members of a Chinese gang who a court this week jailed for 23 years.

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