{"id":622928,"date":"2026-06-05T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622928\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:17:09","slug":"manchester-airport-check-in-worker-part-of-gang-that-smuggled-30m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622928\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Airport check-in worker part of gang that smuggled \u00a330m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The gang collected criminal cash from across northern England, including Greater Manchester, before transporting it to the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rauf flew to and from the UAE herself seven times over a period of seven months, reporting into work as being sick. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The investigation was launched after Border Force officers seized almost \u00a3800,000 in cash in two separate incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One courier, Sheikh Jobe, 33, from Manchester, was arrested at Manchester Airport in October 2018 after more than \u00a3300,000 was found in his luggage, the NCA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gang collected criminal cash from across northern England, including Greater Manchester, before transporting it to the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}