Money launderer sent back to prison after breaching SCPO

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The National Crime Agency (NCA) has announced that Shafiq Ahmed, a money transfer business owner, responsible for a £5m money laundering scheme has been sentenced to a year in prison at Kingston Crown Court after the NCA discovered he breached his Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO). Ahmed was originally sentenced in June 2013 at Blackfriars Crown Court to eight years in prison for laundering millions of pounds, he was later released on licence in July 2017 having served half his sentence. At the same court, on 23 October 2014, Ahmed was made subject to a confiscation order and ordered to give over £829,427 in profits obtained through his criminal activities and a SCPO was made. On 5 August 2020, NCA officers arrested Ahmed and conducted a search of his home, seizing a mobile phone and SIM cards plus documentation relating to multiple undeclared accounts, companies, and properties as well as cash and credit and debit cards....