A man was arrested as he attempted to smuggle $580,000 in U.S. banknotes into China on Wednesday.
The
man had the cash — much of it in $100 bills — strapped around his legs
and in a bag when he was detained crossing from Hong Kong to the
mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen.
The man, reported only
by the surname Chen, told interrogators he was going to use the money to
buy a house. When asked why he had not used a bank to transfer the sum,
which would have incurred a fee, he said: "I was quite greedy, people
are always greedy."
Travelers entering China are generally allowed to carry a maximum of $10,000 in foreign currency. That was drug money and he was going to send it straight to the cartels.
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