Two Venezuelans were arrested Tuesday night at the bus station in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) while they were carrying 2.5 million euros in small denominations, we learned from sources close to the investigation.
The money was in the two suitcases of these two Venezuelan nationals, a 36-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, arrested by the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) of Toulouse, says a source close to the investigation.
Taken into custody
They were arrested Tuesday around 18 p.m. at the bus station in Toulouse while they were traveling by bus, says a police source.
Leaving Paris, they were going to Barcelona with this amount of money in their luggage, we learn from a source close to the file. They were placed in police custody, while the investigation opened was entrusted to the Toulouse judicial police, in view of the amount seized.