Drug mule suspect Bella Culley was paid to pose as a company director so Chinese retailers could bypass an Amazon ban on trading in the UK, it was claimed last night.
Culley, 18, is said to have received £550 in return for her passport information, which was then used to open a business account on the digital marketplace.
She is listed at Companies House as a director of Lujamen Ltd, a firm linked to Jiamin Lu, a 30-year-old businessman based in Guangdong, China, who sells second-hand electrical items online.
Culley, from Billingham, Teesside, is now being held in Tbilisi, Georgia, after allegedly being caught with £200,000 of drugs at its airport last Sunday.
The Mail on Sunday spoke to another UK national linked to Jiamin Lu who said he signed to be a director with Culley.
