Jail for bent Barclays manager who laundered millions of pounds

A Barclays business account manager has been jailed for five and a half years for creating hundreds fake accounts to launder the proceeds of a £7 million swindle. Rukon Miah, 39, set up bogus accounts using real people’s identities for his co-conspirators rinse cash. Private accounts defrauded during the conspiracy included both charities as well as individuals who lost ‘vast sums of money’ and suffered ‘extreme hardship’. To avoid suspicion, the money taken from these accounts would then be transferred…