He told jurors: “The prosecution say this is nonsense.
The other defendants – Mr Stunt, Alexander Tulloch and Francesca Sota – say they “don’t know whether it was”, Mr Clarke said. Prosecutors said that the cash was brought into business addresses owned or managed by the defendants between Jan 2014 and Sep 2016.įive defendants from Fowler Oldfield – Greg Frankel, Daniel Rawson, Paul Miller, Heidi Buckler and Haroon “Harry” Rashid – all say the prosecution cannot prove that any of the cash was criminal property. The court heard that the cash worth hundreds of thousands of pounds at a time was carried in sports bags, carrier bags and holdalls and paid into the bank account of Fowler Oldfield, a Bradford-based gold dealer.
Opening the case at Leeds Cloth Hall Court on Tuesday, Nicholas Clarke QC, prosecuting, said it was “blindingly obvious this was criminal cash”. James Stunt, who was married to Petra Ecclestone until 2017, is on trial accused of being part of a £266 million operation which deposited the cash into the account of a family jewellery company and used the proceeds to buy gold.
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The former son-in-law of Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula 1 billionaire, was allegedly part of a money laundering gang that deposited carrier bags full of “criminal cash” every day, a court was told.