Rabbi who sold sex pills gets ten years

A ‘self-styled rabbi’ who once tried to buy a knighthood has been jailed for nearly 10 years in his absence for laundering £10 million made from the illegal sale of sex pills. Edward Cohen, 67, set up a ‘bewildering’ network of companies, some of them promoting Orthodox Judaism and ‘helping the Jewish poor’. He diverted vast sums of cash, alongside legitimate charitable donations, via foreign exchange firms before sending it overseas, Southwark Crown Court heard. Cohen used some of the…