Drug dealer used his laundered cash to lead 'extremely lavish lifestyle' with flash homes, designer clothes and fancy cars
08.04.2022 - 19:15
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A heroin dealer who lived "an extremely lavish lifestyle" using more than £300,000 of laundered drug money has been handed another prison sentence. Mahmood Hussain, 45, from Rochdale, was caged for 13 years in 2019 after being convicted and sentenced for supplying heroin with a street value of over six million pounds.
After he was charged with those offences specialist officers immediately began probing his financial affairs, spending months scouring his accounts. They found he owned no houses, earnt "very little" from three car businesses he did own and had virtually no money in his own bank accounts.
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Yet at his home, designer clothes, handbags, shoes and jewellery worth thousands of pounds were all found. It was also discovered he had funded deposits, home improvements and mortgage payments on two houses that were in the names of family members.
These included a jacuzzi walk-in wardrobe filled with designer gear, a jacuzzi bath and an illuminated stairway. A Volkswagen and a high-end Audi RS4 used by Hussain were also registered in other names.
In all he laundered a total of £336,00 - all believed to have been gained through his drug dealing - Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard. Mahmood, of Gowers Street, Rochdale was yesterday, Thursday, April 7, sentenced to two years in prison after admitting three counts of money laundering.
The sentence will run concurrently with his current jail term. Speaking after the case the woman who oversaw the investigation said his crimes were an insult to those living honest lives and struggling to make ends meet during the current cost of living crisis.
Detective Constable Louise Henry, from GMP’s