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Hatton Garden company boss Samir Jagirdar jailed for seven years over £266m money laundering scam
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Samir Jagirdar, 58, has been sentenced to seven years in prison at Leeds Crown Court for his role in laundering £266m of criminal cash through his London-based scrap jewellery firm, Pure Nines. Operating between 2012 and 2016, Jagirdar used his business as a front to deliver cash to Fowler Oldfield in Bradford, where it was used to buy gold grain exported to Dubai using fake invoices. The broader police investigation is noted as the largest into the laundering of criminal cash in UK legal history.
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- Samir Jagirdar was sentenced to seven years in prison at Leeds Crown Court after pleading guilty to money laundering between 2012 and 2016.
- Jagirdar used his London firm, Pure Nines, as a front to funnel cash to Fowler Oldfield in Bradford.
- The illicit cash was used to purchase gold grain that was subsequently exported to Dubai using fake invoices.
- Police recovered cash, an automated counting machine, and 147 bars of fake gold at Pure Nines to create the illusion of a legitimate gold dealer.
- The investigation is described by West Yorkshire Police as the largest money laundering case involving criminal cash in UK legal history.
- Jagirdar is the seventh defendant to be sentenced in connection with the large-scale fraud.