Italian police stopped rapper Snoop Dogg last Friday as he prepared to board a private plane bound for Britain with over $422,000 in U.S. cash inside his Louis Vuitton luggage, a police source told CNN.
The maximum amount of cash that passengers traveling through Italy can carry without declaring it is $11,010.25 to prevent money laundering.
Half of the cash was given back to Snoop Dogg, while the other half is being held by Italian authorities until the amount of the fine he will have to pay is determined. He told police that the cash was to pay his band for concerts in Italy and elsewhere.
“We clarified everything from a legal point of view. The money came from concerts he had performed around Europe. There was no crime; it was just an administrative infraction,” Snoop’s lawyer, Andrea Parisitold Reuters.
Sources: Twitter, CNN, BBC, The Associated Press, The New York Post, Reuters
