Source: New Zealand Police (National News)
Police are announcing its third instalment in a trilogy of operations targeting and disrupting Auckland’s high-end money launderers.
Early this morning members of the Financial Crime Group, assisted by the Armed Offenders Squad and staff from across Tāmaki Makaurau, terminated Operation Ida.
Twelve search warrants were executed across the city, including at a Newmarket business and at numerous residential addresses.
Operation Ida sees Police restraining more than $10.2 million in assets and making 10 arrests as part of the investigation.
Four properties and three vehicles, worth more than $10 million, have been restrained in St Heliers, Kumeu and New Lynn.
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 4:34 pm
Police are announcing its third instalment in a trilogy
of operations targeting and disrupting Auckland’s high-end
money launderers.
Early this morning members of the
Financial Crime Group, assisted by the Armed Offenders Squad
and staff from across Tāmaki Makaurau, terminated Operation
Ida.
Twelve search warrants were executed across the city,
including at a Newmarket business and at numerous
residential addresses.
Operation Ida sees Police
restraining more than $10.2 million in assets and making 10
arrests as part of the investigation.
Four properties and
three vehicles, worth more than $10 million, have been
restrained in St Heliers, Kumeu and New Lynn.
In total, five companies had clandestine fines outstanding. Three days earlier on Monday, March 1, in Newport Pagnell, 60 lorries were searched with six companies having clandestine fines outstanding. No people were found in any of the lorries that were searched in the region, but officials and officers discovered that 22 lorries had outstanding clandestine fines for previously being found with people on the lorry following a border crossing.
Several lorries were checked during the week (stock photo) As a result, £96,190 was paid in fines to Border Force, with two lorries being seized. A further £100,000 in clandestine fines were also recovered following an operation that ran through February.
Updated
Wednesday, 10th March 2021, 6:14 pm
The resident who lives in Manor Park said they noticed a man leaving British Heart Foundation donation bags on driveways before talking to a colleague in a waiting pickup truck – but the man only left collection bags at houses with dogs and ignored ones without them.
The resident said they believed this was a new tactic so dognappers know which homes to visit later and swipe pets.
They told Sussex Crimewatch public Facebook page: “A scruffy bald man walked around our cul-de-sac holding a Heart Foundation donation bag. He walked all around, threw the donation bag on our drive and walked off.
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