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British-Moroccan Couple Arrested at Spanish Port with €100,000 in Attempted Bribery Scheme
Thursday 12 March 2020, by
A British national and his Moroccan-born wife, apparently in a hurry to make the crossing, tried to bribe a Spanish police officer to avoid the control at the port of Tarifa.
At the request of the border police officer, the man and his wife, aged 47 and 49 respectively, handed over their travel documents, not forgetting to slip a large sum of money into their passports.
Taken aback, and especially intrigued by their nervous behavior, the agent called on his colleagues to carry out a thorough search of the vehicle and the two passengers.
As a result of this search, bundles of 100-euro bills, carefully hidden in perfume packaging, were discovered for a total amount of 99,500 euros.
17 latest generation mobile phones, as well as laptops and tablets, were also found by the Spanish police officers.
Prosecuted for the offenses of corruption and money laundering, the two suspects were taken into custody in Algesiras, at the disposal of the investigation conducted under the supervision of the public prosecutor’s office.