During police surveillance, Stirling University student Xiaotong Huang, 28, was seen with a bag stuffed full with cash but later claimed that it only contained homemade dumplings.
A Beijing student at a Scottish university who laundered ten of thousands of pounds for a Glasgow-based Chinese crime lord wept as she was jailed today. Xiaotong Huang, 28, laundered nearly £85,000 for the "Mr Big", or "main nominal", who travelled round Scotland in a Mercedes handing bags of cash to associates to clean.
He asked for her to be given a non-custodial sentence, so she could return to her parents in Beijing - described as people "of more than adequate means". But jailing Huang for 18 months, Sheriff Keith O'Mahony said he was not persuaded there was any appropriate disposal other than custody. On April 6, 2021, police watched as Huang got into his Merc in a car park near her halls of residence in Wellgreen, Stirling, before emerging with a brown paper bag which she took to the travel money section of the nearest Post Office.
An analysis of her accounts showed that between June 2019 and April 2021 she had banked more than £160,400 in her accounts at the Santander, Monzo and Starling banks - some £56,000 of that in cash. She claimed she'd got the money from her Chinese fiance, then living in Germany, whom she said was now dead; from Chinese fellow students at the University of Stirling, whom she said had since returned to China; and from her parents, still in China, who did not travel to the UK to give evidence in support of her claims.
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