Around £6 million worth of assets including a luxury hotel and a £100,000 Bentley have been taken off alleged members of an international money laundering group after an eight year National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

The haul was recovered from three defendants, including a practising barrister who agreed to hand over assets rather than face a 15-day trial, and associated companies.

The orders are the culmination of a complex eight-year civil recovery investigation into businessman Jonathan Nuttall of Romsey, Hampshire.

As part of the investigation the NCA uncovered an international money laundering n...