An Emirates check-in attendant has admitted helping a crime family smuggle millions of pounds to Dubai so she could buy designer goods and a boob job, a court has heard.
Emma Rauf, 34, abused her position at Manchester Airport to wave through couriers carrying cash to the UAE city. Her parents' home was later shot at after £406,500 was stolen from her car, Bolton Crown Court was told.
The gangster who owned the missing cash warned that whoever took it would get a 'bullet through the head' and ordered Rauf to take a lie detector test. After she refused, several bullets were fired through the front door and lounge window of the family home in Hale.
Rauf was later seen taking full bags to a safety deposit box in Manchester city centre. The court heard she sent videos to relatives showing off a Louis Vuitton handbag, Valentino shoes, a diamond ring and Rolex watch inside a Bentley.
Bill Baker KC, prosecuting, said Rauf was prepared to risk her job to 'enjoy the lifestyle' brought by commissions on the laundered cash. 'The lure of designer goods and expensive watches was no doubt her motivation for involving herself in very serious organised crime,' he said.
Rauf changed her plea to guilty on March 23. She and seven others are due to be sentenced at Bolton Crown Court in October.
