£128,000 In Cash

[Canary42]

How the other (criminal) half lives !

" told the court that a woman who had booked the private jet for that trip had paid for it with £128,000 in cash."

Perhaps that is what aroused the Border Force's suspicions in spite of the explanation ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-45005255?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-hampshire-44922206&link_location=live-reporting-story

[jno]

imagine carrying all that money around. I'd just stick it in the petty cash tray.

[Flonska]

or . . . perhaps suspicions were first aroused when they boarded the plane and having turned right at the door asked where the Business Class Cabin was?

[Jackdaw33]

Three days from Luton to Farnborough? Even National Rail can do better than that. Sorry, I forgot that there were works on the line so they had to divert via Colombia.

[Peter Pedant]

odd, she must have k nown transactions of that size would attract MLR attention.