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| FLORIANOPOLIS, Santa Catarina – Before dawn Thursday, Federal Highway Police (PRF) found U.S. $87,000 in cash hidden in a space meant for a car airbag. The cash was seized and the occupants of the vehicle were arrested.
$87,000 U.S. dollars cash seized(photo: clicrbs.com.br/PRF Release)
The car was stopped by the PRF at a checkpoint on the BR-101 highway near the small town of Garuva, in the northern part of the state. The cash was hidden in the space where the passenger airbag should have been. The safety equipment was removed to make room for the American money, estimated to be equivalent to R$150,000 reals — the national currency.
The two men, driver and passenger, were employees of a foreign currency exchange group but they lacked documentation necessary for the legal transportation of large sums of cash. They were arrested and will be charged under the country's money laundering laws.
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