Glasgow Royal Mail workers accused of stealing £750k from parcels

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Two Royal Mail workers are accused of stealing £750,000 from packages and sending dirty cash to Pakistan.

Mehdi Raza, 38, and Zafran Mahmood, 34, allegedly stole the money between January 2023 and September 2024.

Court papers state the men were employed as agency workers at the Royal Mail in Glasgow's Dennistoun.

It is claimed that they took a quantity of special delivery parcels containing mobile phones and £750,000 in cash or foreign currency.

A second allegation claims that Raza was found to be in possession of £159,842 of criminal property at his home in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, on September 16, 2024.

The third charge says both men, now of Knightswood, concealed, transferred and removed criminal property from Scotland between January 2023 and September 2024.

It is alleged that they repeatedly transferred sums of money between one another as well as from Scotland to Pakistan.

The transfers abroad are claimed to have been to accounts in their own names as well as others there.

The charge says Raza and Mahmood, in an effort to conceal the source of the money, pretended to Barclays Bank that property in Pakistan had been sold at a value greater than what they had in fact sold it for.

It is further alleged that the pair claimed that they sold two motor vehicles when they had not.

A final fraud charge says that Raza made the false claims in an attempt to justify the source of his income to allow him to continue to have an account with Barclays Bank.

Raza and Mahmood pleaded not guilty to the charges against them at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

A further hearing will take place next month.

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