Police discover £5m in cash in London flat

Police discovered more than £5m in cash in a London flat after a criminal gang reportedly "didn't know what to do with it".

Three men were sentenced on Friday following the Metropolitan

Police's largest-ever single seizure of cash at the apartment in Fulham

Bundles of "dirty cash" were found hidden in plastic shopping bags under a bed and strewn on the floor, the force revealed.

Police said the cash was stacked up at the flat because the gang "didn't know what to do with it" and the COVID pandemic had "really exacerbated their problem of how to get rid of money", the London Evening Standard reported.

The discovery came after a long-running police operation targeting gun crime and drugs supply across London which identified money launderer Sergejs Auzins.