Money launderers who targeted football club owner jailed

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Money launderers who targeted football club owner jailed
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The five men channelled almost £1.5m of 'dirty money' through a law firm in Paisley.

From left, Mohammed Aziz, Alistair Blackwood, Robert Ferguson , David Lyons and Ian Robertson

The case centred on four separate transactions, with the largest involving the owner of a UK football club.The court was told that £985,000 of the businessman's money ended up in a client account of Robertson's firm. The three, along with Alistair Blackwood, 68, of Dunlop, East Ayrshire, and Robert Ferguson, 67, of Thornliebank, East Renfrewshire, were also found guilty of charges under the Proceeds of Crime Act, which took place between 2015 and 2016.

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