A taxi driver and his partner have been sentenced in connection with a £2m money laundering conspiracy - after he was found with £250k on the back seat of his car.
Manchester Crown Court heard that in April 2015 HMRC Investigators found along with the cash in the car of Waqas Ilyas another £36,435 hidden under his mattress at his home in Melville Road, Stretford and a ledger which detailed a month of transactions worth £1.7m.
Ilyas, 35, and his partner Nazia Ghafar, 31, were arrested and at first denied money laundering under the Proceeds of Crime Act but changed their pleas on the eve of a trial.
Ilyas was jailed for four years while Ghafar was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence.
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