Money launderer Abdullah Alfalasi has to pay back £3.5m

A money laundering kingpin who moved vast amounts of criminal cash from the UK to the United Arab Emirates in the largest ever case of its kind must pay back £3.5m. Abdullah Alfalasi, 48, ran an army of cash mules who transported cash in suitcases packed with coffee granules and air fresheners to avoid detection by airport sniffer dogs. National Crime Agency investigators found couriers took £104m out of the country on 83 Emirates flights from London Heathrow to the…