Jewish charities ‘were front for money laundering’

A teacher and his father laundered more than £10m from the illegal sale of Viagra and slimming pills through Jewish charities set up to tackle worldwide poverty, a court heard. David Cohen, 38, and dad Edward, 67, set up a ‘bewildering’ network of companies, some of them promoting Orthodox Judaism and ‘helping the Jewish poor’, it was said. The pair diverted vast sums of cash, alongside legitimate charitable donations, via foreign exchange firms before sending it overseas, Southwark Crown Court…