From the Independent
Police investigating UK extremists travelling to Syria have arrested two men in London on suspicion of money-laundering. Scotland Yard said the arrests came as part of an investigation into large-scale fraud which involved raids across six addresses in the capital today. Investigations at all six addresses are ongoing, according to the Met Police
Officers arrested a 29-year-old man in west London and a 23-year-old man in east London on Wednesday morning, police said. They are currently being held in custody in a south London police station.
The fraud, which allegedly saw the theft of £150,000 from one elderly man alone, involved conmen cold-calling vulnerable people and impersonating a police officer.They would then inform them their bank account had been compromised and convince the victims into transferring money to an account under the control of the suspect, police said.
