Money laundering

Dorset Police Commercial Fraud department invited Dorset Crimestoppers to join them in the fight against money laundering.

We produced a bookmark and it was distributed throughout the county in hotels, libraries, travel agents, Citizen Advice centres, financial institutions and ferry and airports terminals.

Within a week of distributing the bookmarks, a person flying out of the county to Spain was stopped by a Security Officer who was aware of the money laundering campaign and a large sum of money was found hidden in his luggage. The money was seized and to date the owner of the cash has not been in touch to reclaim it!

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'Dirty money' or assets derived from crime represents £18billion in the UK. Half of this money is derived from illegal drug transactions

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