The police officers of the North sometimes fall on sacred characters during their checks. And that’s what happened on March 8 on board the regional train linking Lille to Kortrijk (Belgium) when they discovered 29,420 euros in a barrel of washing powder, reported La Voix Du Nord relayed by The union.
The police checked this 41-year-old man and 43-year-old woman. She had false papers. They then asked him to open his suitcase where they found wads of banknotes wrapped in cling film and hidden in a barrel of washing powder for an amount of approximately 30,000 euros.
8 month suspended sentence
Except that any money transported and exceeding 10,000 euros must be declared to customs. But the man had a ready-made explanation: this money was to be used to buy a backhoe in Lille to carry out excavations in Suriname (South America) because he is… a gold digger.
Not enough to make the police officers who boarded the couple laugh. The latter was sentenced to an eight-month suspended prison sentence and banishment from French territory. As for the money, it was confiscated by justice.