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1:02pm Saturday 22nd November 2008
A MAN is due in court today in relation to a drugs raid which seized £1.2million in cash from a number of properties.
Amir Bashir Dob, 34, of The Drive, in Ilford, has been charged with one count of money laundering and will appear at City of Westminster Magistrates Court.
Mr Dob was one of 14 people arrested on Thursday at a number of addresses across the capital and the Home Counties.
In total police seized more than 1,050 kilos of skunk, two money counting machines and two safes during their operation.
Eleven of the suspects arrested have now been charged with various offences including money laundering, conspiracy to import controlled drugs, and conspiracy to supply controlled drugs.
Three have been released on bail pending further inquiries.
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Bert Small, Leyton says...
5:09pm Mon 24 Nov 08
There is a big advertising campaign on at the moment about bring illegal meat imports in and if that cartoon character Fifi is anything to go by, they have a putrid smell?
We have had an influx of all kinds of 'bush meat and bib and tucker' which has beed encouraged no doubt by the crazy programme 'I'm a Celebrity. I even saw ants, slugs, bugs, earwigs, flies set in boiled sweets in Fortnum and Masons once. revolting stuff. Put me off of my Cream Tea.