The group ferried more than £104 million to the UAE via 83 separate trips between November 2019 and October 2020, communicating with each other through a WhatsApp group called "sunshine and lollipops".
Eleven of the couriers have now been convicted after guilty verdicts were returned in the trials of Beatrice Auty, 26, from London; Jonathan Johnson, 55, and Jo Emma Larvin, 44, both from Ripon in North Yorkshire; and Amy Harrison, 27, from Worcester Park in Surrey, following hearings at London’s Isleworth Crown Court.
The criminal enterprise was overseen by ringleader Abdullah Alfalsi, 47, who was jailed for more than nine years last July.
