Money laundering gang who hacked football club owner's account locked up

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Former lawyers Iain Robertson, 69, David Lyons, 71, and Alistair Blackwood, 68, along with Mohammed Aziz, 61, and Robert Ferguson, 67, were convicted following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Five men are behind bars for money laundering which included the bank account of a football club owner being hacked.

Robertson a total of six, Lyons four, Aziz four, Blackwood and Ferguson both two. Robertson and Lyons were further guilty of a fraud charge. Jurors heard how £985,000 was swiped and ended up in the client account of Robertson's firm. In his closing speech, prosecutor Alan Cameron said: "The man had never had any business or communication with Robertson and Ross."

Robertson, Lyons and Aziz had different roles in hiding the cash. The next centred on the fraudulent £240,000 house sale of a property in Neasden, London.

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