‘I’m off on a family holiday – with £1.2m. In cash.’

A shop worker who claimed he was off on a family holiday when he was arrested at an airport with £1.2m in his suitcase been jailed for 21 months for money laundering. Mazen Al Shaar, 48, was stopped by Border Force officers on Saturday 15 March this year as he was about to fly from Terminal Three at Heathrow to Beirut. The supermarket worker, of Marsworth Close, Middlesex, said he only had £500 in cash on him and that he…