A supermarket worker who claimed he was jetting off on a family holiday when he was found with £1.2million in his suitcase has been jailed.
Mazen Al Shaar, 48, was stopped by Border Force officers on March 15 as he was about to fly from Terminal Three at Heathrow to Beirut.
The supermarket worker, of Marsworth Close, Middlesex, said he only had £500 in cash on him and that he was leaving the UK to visit family.
But officers searched his three suitcases and two of them contained a total of £1,232,880.
Al Shaar, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on Friday after admitting one count of money laundering.
