A Yorkshire gold dealership at the centre of an alleged £266mn money laundering operation used illegally acquired cash deposited in its NatWest bank account to buy the precious metal, which was then shipped to Dubai and out of the reach of the UK authorities, a criminal trial has been told.
A jury at Leeds Crown Court, which is hearing one of Britain’s biggest money laundering prosecutions, was told that the cash had to be paid through Bradford-based Fowler Oldfield “to hide its…