Overview
- Police were alerted at 11:40pm on October 30 to a suspicious car at Manchester Airport, where seven 1kg ‘Suisse’ gold bars worth about £700,000 were found.
- Two men, aged 49 and 45, were arrested on November 3 on arrival in the UK on an inbound flight reported to be from Dubai, with a further estimated £1 million of gold and jewellery in their luggage.
- Searches at addresses in Bradford recovered additional gold worth around £60,000, a £30,000 watch, and cash.
- GMP’s Economic Crime Unit has opened a money-laundering investigation to establish why the high-value items were brought into the country, and both suspects remain in custody.
- Police issued a public appeal for information, and one local outlet described the car discovery as the force’s biggest gold seizure, a claim not otherwise confirmed.