Two Royal Mail workers have been accused of stealing £750,000 from packages and sending the cash to Pakistan. Mehdi Raza, 38, and Zafran Mahmood, 34, allegedly stole the money between January 2023 and September 2024.
Court papers state the men were employed as agency workers at the Royal Mail in Glasgow’s Dennistoun. It is claimed that they took a quantity of special delivery parcels containing mobile phones and £750,000 in cash or foreign currency. A second allegation claims that Raza was found to be in possession of £159,842 of criminal property at his home in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, on September 16, 2024.
They are accused of repeatedly transferring money between one another as well as from Scotland to Pakistan.
The charge says Raza and Mahmood, in a bid to conceal the source of the money, pretended to Barclays Bank that property in Pakistan had been sold at a value greater than what they had sold it for. It is further alleged that the pair claimed that they sold two motor vehicles when they had not.
The final fraud charge alleges that Raza made false claims to justify the source of his income and to maintain his Barclays Bank account.
Mahmood, of Knightswood, Glasgow, and Raza pleaded not guilty to the charges against them at Glasgow Sheriff Court. A further hearing will take place next month.