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An £80,000 car was seized by police together with thousands of pounds in cash in money laundering raids launched at dawn on Tuesday (April 1).

Two men - aged 30 and 25 - were arrested and remained in custody today for questioning.

Detective Sergeant Peter Goddard, from Greater Manchester Police's money laundering team, said: "Today marks the start of a new financial year and we have started as we mean to go on, continuing in our relentless pursuit of those suspected to be laundering money from their criminal proceeds."

Warrants were executed as dawn broke in Salford, Cheetham Hill and Crumpsall, north Manchester.

Approximately £2,000 in cash and the car were seized from an address in Salford, with a further £50,000 in cash recovered from a business premises in Cheetham Hill as part of the operation.

A further search at a property in Crumpsall also resulted in the seizure of £1,000 in cash. Both men were arrested on suspicion of money laundering offences, GMP added.

A spokesperson said: "Today's arrests are part of a sustained crackdown into individuals suspected of being involved in high-level money laundering offences in the Greater Manchester area.

"Over the last year, GMP's Economic Crime Unit have successfully forfeited over £17 million from the back pockets of criminals, and the funds have been handed to organisations who support local communities across Greater Manchester via the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS)."

Detective Sergeant Goddard added: "Criminals try to disguise their ill-gotten gains to support illegal activities and exploit vulnerable people, causing harm to our communities.

"We have a dedicated team of specialists to tackle organised money laundering, which often supports criminal activity such as drug dealing; firearms; terrorism and organised immigration crime.

"We are asking the public to remain vigilant and if you see, or suspect something is wrong, please tell us, and we can do something about it. The information you continue provide us with is vital to our investigations."

No further details have been revealed.