William Goss, leading Alice Hewett, secured convictions of three Defendants for their participation in a family-run money laundering operation.
Following a 5-week trial at Wood Green Crown Court, a jury returned guilty verdicts against Gafar Bakare, Zainab Bakare and Saheedat Bakare for laundering the proceeds of two lucrative North London Class A drugs lines. The drugs lines - owned and spearheaded by Gafar Bakare - made approximately £320,000 over a 12-month period. Concurrently, the Defendants acted together to deposit cash and layer money through multiple bank accounts in order to obscure its origin.
William successfully prosecuted the predicate drugs case in 2023-4, leading Joe Weeks — Media: The Standard.
The Defendants will be sentenced in December 2026.
The trial of their mother, also alleged to have participated in the offending, will take place in the Autumn of 2028.
William and Alice were instructed by Fiona Whillis of CPS London Crown Court North.
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