Police discover £196k of drugs money hidden in an attic in Sutton (From Surrey Comet)
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Police discover £196k of drugs money hidden in an attic in Sutton
4:24pm Friday 5th March 2010 in
Police raided 54 Poplar Road, Sutton, and found £195,230 of skunk cannabis money hidden in the attic.
They also found two counting machines which linked the network back to money launderer Asim Bashir.
When police looked at internal clocks in the machines they showed 510,000 notes had been counted in six months - an estimated £10.2m.
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