A FRESH bid will be made by Lancashire Police tomorrow to seize more than £100,000 suspected of being generated by the drugs trade.

Detectives originally seized more than £100,000 after stopping two cars in Nora Street, Barrowford, back in June 2012, near to the former civic hall.

In what is believed to be one of the largest cash seizures ever made in the former Pennine policing division, the money was being transferred between a Volkswagen Passat and Skoda vehicle.

Initially five people were arrested by Pendle CID, including four from the Nelson area, aged 39, 43, 36 and 16, and a 66-year-old Hertfordshire man, and an application was made to Reedley magistrates to hold the cash under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Later Nassar Mahmood, of Eastfield, in Scotland Road, Nelson, and Anthony Nieberg, of Furzehill Road, Borehamwood, were charged with money laundering offences.

Police have confirmed that Mahmood was convicted in April last year and jailed for 28 months. Co-defendant Nieberg, was jailed for two years, which was later reduced to a 21-month sentence, over similar matters.

Mahmood is listed as a former director of Globe Car Sales, based in Bolton, and as still on the board of Continental Exchange Ltd.

A Lancashire Police spokesman said: "A VW Passat was parked in Nora Street, when a man got out of that vehicle, carrying a bag containing the money, while someone else came out of a Skoda parked nearby, before the arrests were made."

The proceeds of crime hearing has been adjourned on a number of occasions so official confirmation could be obtained of the outcome of the criminal matters and the case is due to be heard before Burnley magistrates tomorrow afternoon.

Cash seizures made under such legislation can be used by Clive Grunshaw, the county's police and crime commissioner, to fund anything from community safety operations to rewards in major cases.