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Four arrested after £180,000 seized at Channel Tunnel

By: Sam Williams swilliams@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 14:45, 28 June 2021

Updated: 17:32, 28 June 2021

Cash totalling around £180,000 was seized from two cars attempting to leave the county.

The vehicles were stopped at the Channel Tunnel terminal in Folkestone and four people were also arrested following the discovery.

Some of the seized cash from the cars, which had been stopped at Channel Tunnel in Folkestone. Picture: Kent Police

The cars had been travelling in convoy when they were stopped at the outbound border controls at around 8.50am, last Thursday, June 24.

Around £30,000 was initially disclosed to UK Border Force officers, who subsequently found an additional £150,000 in various locations across the two cars.

Border policing officers from Kent Police attended and seized the cash under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

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They also arrested two men aged 53 and 32, and two women aged 49 and 25 on suspicion of money laundering.

The four suspects, who are all from Leicester, were later released from custody pending further inquiries.

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