Police find £1m cash in suspect’s home after stopping his car
Police searching a man’s home after stopping his car have found £1 million in cash.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Venice, a squad set up to stop moped crime, stopped the suspect in a car park in north London on Tuesday.
They found £12,000 cash in the car, and the 31-year-old was unable to explain why he had so much money, the force said.
#ARREST | Officers from the Met’s Operation Venice Scorpion and Venice Investigation Team (VIT) have arrested a man and seized what is believed to be almost £1m in cash https://t.co/EjNQxMybyj
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Officers then went to his home in Haringey, north London, and found nearly £1 million in banknotes stuffed into shoe boxes and bags, along with a number of passports.
Detective Chief Inspector Shaun White, who leads Operation Venice, said: “There is no justifiable reason for this much cash not being kept in a bank account, unless it has been sourced from ill-gotten activities involving criminality.”