It is not legal to transport such an amount of money in the car without justifying its origin
In a routine control on Gran Vía street, the Police have discovered a car with 200,000 euros in the trunk. The occupants of the vehicle could not explain the origin of such amount, so they were transferred to the police station.
Official sources explain that the Madrid Municipal Police officers stopped a vehicle and asked its driver for documentation. Driver and companion were “nervous” in the face of questions and requests from agents who verified it was a rental car.
A ‘rain’ of 50-euro bills paralyzes traffic on a Malaga highway
200,000 euros in cash in the trunk
It was the behavior of the occupants that made the agents suspect that something strange was happening, for which they asked them to get out of the car and open the trunk.
There was the surprise: in a brown bag, they carried numerous wads of bills wrapped in plastic.
€200,000 intervened in a control of a vehicle on the Gran VíaIts occupants could not justify the movement or the origin of the money, so the Agents of #NorthCenter they proceeded to their transfer to the PN Police Station and initiation of proceedings for money laundering#PMM pic.twitter.com/OlcStKWcbK
— Madrid Municipal Police (@policiademadrid) January 31, 2023
Following the established protocol, the agents asked the occupants of the vehicle to justify the origin of the money, either through a bank receipt or an authorization from the Treasury to transfer such an amount.
The driver claimed to be the owner of the money. He explained to the agents that he was “the owner of a bazaar in Malaga” and that the tickets were to “pay vendors.”
They will have to go through the court
Driver and companion were transferred to the National Police station since transporting such an amount of money in a vehicle is not legal.
Once at the police station, they counted the tickets and it turned out that they had 200,000 euros in cash in the bag. The men were released, after returning 1,000 euros for their maintenance. In the next few days, they will be summoned by a court that will resolve the origin of the money and make the appropriate decisions.
