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15.11.2023 - 22:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man from Manchester is among three jailed after police seized almost £3 million of criminal loot was seized during a house raid in the Midlands. Lee Kennedy, 35, from Colshaw Road, Wythenshawe, Darren Percival, 47, and Alan Britton, 50, were arrested after the money was found at a safe house.
A total of £2.9 million in Scottish, Irish and Sterling bank notes were found stashed across the property in Wolverhampton during the bust in May 2020. Percival used a house in Fallings Park, Wolverhampton, as a base to launder money for criminal groups. He worked with Britton and Kennedy as part of the operation.
All three were given sentences ranging from more than four years to two years for charges relating to controlling criminal property. Investigations into conversations the men had shared on a messaging app uncovered the operation and the three men's involvement.
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A court heard the trio were caught out after police cracked their Encrochat - an encrypted global communication service used exclusively by criminals. The chats revealed Percival, under the name Mistaken Mallet, was using the house as a base to launder money for criminal groups.
He worked with Britton, using the handle Random Foot and Kennedy, using Betting Toxic, to sort, pack up and re-distribute the cash. When officers swooped at the address, Percival was found alongside huge amounts of cash scattered around the property.
A cash-counting machine and boxes of cash were recovered from the front and back bedrooms, the kitchen and even in a cupboard under the stairs. In total
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