She claimed she was only going on a girls’ holiday and she had so many cases because she did not know what to wear 🤨
At least 26 couriers were each paid between £3,000 and £8,000 per trip depending on how much cash they were smuggling.Among Alfalasi’s couriers were Nicola Esson, 55, from Leeds, who was arrested during raids last May.
She had already smuggled £3.5m in five suitcases on three different trips over a four-month period when Border Force officers stopped her at Heathrow Airport in October 2020 with the latest haul. But text messages found on her phones by investigators showed Hanlon was being paid around £3,000 for each trip.
Wads of bank notes were then vacuum packed and separated into suitcases which would each contain around £500,000, weighing around 6.2st .
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