Tara Hanlon, from Yorkshire, has been charged with money laundering after the money was seized by Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport

Tara Hanlon will next appear in Crown Court on 5 November

A woman has been accused of attempting to fly to Dubai with nearly £2 million in cash stashed in five suitcases.

Tara Hanlon, 30, has been charged with money laundering after the money was seized by Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport.

Hanlon, from Yorkshire, was stopped at the airport’s Terminal 2 at around 8pm on Saturday 3 October before trying to board a flight to Dubai.

Officers searched five suitcases and found £1.9 million in sterling notes – “the largest such detection at the border so far in 2020,” a news story on the government website said.

Hanlon was arrested, along with a 28-year-old woman from the Doncaster area, and the investigation was referred to the National Crime Agency (NCA).