The money would be sent from one fake company to another in a fiendishly complicated web of transfers before it was sent out into accounts in countries including Germany, the Czech Republic, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and Singapore. They were also seen, alongside their criminal pals, opening bank accounts across the capital in the names of fake companies, and then moving tens of thousands of pounds a time into those accounts. Little did the crooks know that officers had swooped in and watched them move cash from the car into Munning House. The car was often driven to Munning House in East London’s Docklands area, where Terzyan and Grochiatskij both lived in next-door flats. Over the next seven months the same Audi travelled all over the country, taking brief stops at lorry parks and service stations before returning to London. Officers then searched Zylyfi’s flat and found a book with details about £7 million of money, which had been laundered over a four-month period. The next month another man, Artur Terziu, was seen handing over £40,000 to Zylyfi in the underground car park below his flat in Hendon, North West London.īoth men were arrested and later jailed for a year each. The probe began in October 2017 when surveillance officers watched another man, Auriel Zylyfi, put a big bag of cash in an Audi at a money counting house in North West London. They were caught out by a four-year joint investigation by the National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police. Their sentences are believed to have been some of the longest ever handed out by a judge for money laundering in Britain. Two underworld criminals who ran a £70 million money laundering racket, including £10 million in Covid bounce-back loans, have been jailed for a total of 33 years.Īrtem Terzyan, 38, from Russia and Deivis Grochiatskij, 44, from Lithuania, even laundered the loans which are supposed to help businesses recover from the pandemic.
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