A 41-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling
a huge sum of money in his stomach at the airport in Montego Bay,
Jamaica.
Eddy Alberio Mancipe Ortega made a bold attempt to smuggle
$103,500 in more than 80 plastic packages in his stomach. The
contrabandist was heading from Jamaica to Trinidad as he was stopped by
officials and sent to the nearest police station for interrogation
Later he spent two days passing 80 plastic containers with dollars
and eventually was sentenced to three months in Jamaican prison. The man
had already been in police custody for eight months and was deported by
officials with ‘immediate effect’.
Financial Investigation Division chief Justin Felice said: “This
is the first instance that we have found cash being smuggled from
Jamaica in such a fashion. It is indicative of how far persons will go
in an effort to evade detection by law enforcement tasked with combating
money laundering”.
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