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$8 million cash found at airport

•Friday, 26 August 2005•3 min read

Mexican customs investigators found $8 million (£4.43m) cash in Mexico City airport’s cargo area.

202 packets of the cash were found inside false bottoms of cardboard boxes containing electronic equipment, according to Mexican customs officials.

The cargo was to be shipped by on an Avianca airlines flight to Colombia, which has a Panama stopover.