The police have smashed a major money laundering operation and arrested three members of a family including a Manchester businesswoman.
A statement issued Friday afternoon by the Ministry of Finance said this followed investigations involving local and law enforcement agencies.
Detectives from the Financial Investigation Division (FID) and the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations Branch (C-TOC) have laid money laundering charges against Manchester businesswoman Eva Mae Sterling, her son, Nicholas Chang, and her sister, Marline Ledford, who is of a St. Catherine address.
The Finance Ministry says investigations revealed that the accused persons purchased properties valued at more than $100 million from the proceeds of drug trafficking carried out by a close relative.
The relative was convicted in the US in 2013.
Chang, Ledford and Sterling were subsequently charged with breaches of the Proceeds of Crime Act and appeared before the St. Andrew Parish Court on Friday.
They were each offered bail in the sum of $700,000. Orders were also made regarding fingerprints and the surrendering of travel documents.
The three accused are scheduled to return to court on July 7.