{"id":48274,"date":"2023-09-16T11:29:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/?p=48274"},"modified":"2023-09-16T11:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T05:59:59","slug":"punjabis-among-16-sentenced-for-money-laundering-human-smuggling-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/punjabis-among-16-sentenced-for-money-laundering-human-smuggling-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjabis among 16 sentenced for money-laundering, human smuggling in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London, September 16 (Press ki Taquat)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of 16 people, including many of Indian origin, have been given jail sentences totalling more than 70 years for their involvement in international money-laundering and people smuggling in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) identified that members of a West London-based organised crime group, led by &#8216;ringleader&#8217; Charan Singh, were likely to have smuggled around 70 million pounds in cash out of the UK, making hundreds of trips to Dubai between 2017 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>NCA officers believe the money was profit from the sale of Class A drugs and organised immigration crime.<\/p>\n<p>Following a three-day sentencing hearing at Croydon Crown Court, which concluded on Friday, 44-year-old Charan Singh from Hounslow was handed a 12-and-a-half-year jail term.<\/p>\n<p>His right-hand man Valjeet Singh got 11 years, while trusted lieutenant Swander Singh Dhal got 10 years for money-laundering and an additional five years for people smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>The other members of the crime group &#8212; Amarjeet Alabadis, Jaginder Kapoor, Jackdar Kapoor, Manmon Singh Kapur, Pinky Kapur and Jasbeer Singh Malhotra &#8212; were given sentences ranging between nine years and 11 months.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals arrested and charged as part of the NCA operation were prosecuted in two trials at Croydon Crown Court in south London starting in January this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharan Singh and his network thought they were untouchable, moving tens of millions of pounds of criminal cash out of the UK. The NCA mounted a long and complex investigation into their activities, and over a two-year period we were able to evidence their involvement in money- laundering and organised immigration crime,&#8221; NCA senior investigating officer Chris Hill said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tag-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/tag\/england\">#England<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"tag-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/tag\/london\">#London<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, September 16 (Press ki Taquat) A group of 16 people, including many of Indian origin, have been given jail sentences totalling more than 70 years for their involvement in international money-laundering and people smuggling in the UK. An investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) identified that members of a West London-based organised crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,14176,13977,20,3],"tags":[26134,26154,1691,26023,1706,13716,21166,20037,3545,25826],"class_list":["post-48274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-cover-story","category-crime","category-india","category-world","tag-latestnews-breakingnews-news-gmanewslatest-hindinews-livenews-topnews-gmanewstoday-newstoday-todaylatestnews-trendingnews","tag-latestnews-news-breakingnews-latestnewsaustralia-skynewslatest-gmanewslatest-worldnews-topnews-todaylatestnews-latestnewstoday","tag-breaking-news","tag-hindi-latest-news","tag-india-news","tag-jp-nadda","tag-latest-india-news","tag-news-in-hindi","tag-today-news","tag-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48275,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48274\/revisions\/48275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}