A Sussex man was charged today in connection with an alleged £6 million drugs-money laundering operation.
He is one of nine people - eight men and a woman - jointly charged after police called at addresses across southern England.
Jeffrey David Green, 43, of Cromwell Hill Farm, Felcourt Road, Felcourt, East Grinstead, and the other eight were due to appear at Bow Street Magistrates Court today jointly charged with conspiracy to launder.
They were arrested by National Crime Squad officers working on Operation Arabia which has been under way for five years.
They have been investigating the alleged multi-million pound laundering of drugs and/or other crime money on an international scale.
A spokesman for the National Crime Squad said the offices of two solicitors' firms in central London were also visited as part of the operation and documentation was seized.
National Crime Squad officers were assisted by officers from the Metropolitan, Essex, Hertfordshire, Sussex and Kent forces during the arrests on Friday.
The other eight charged come from Essex, Kent, London, Hertfordshire, Somerset and Middlesex.
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