MMA Customs Arrest Passenger With $540,000

The Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service yesterday arrested a passenger with $540,000.

The arrest was made while the passenger was about to board Emirates Airlines to Dubai, the United Arab Emirate (UAE).

Mrs Thelma Williams, the Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service, Airport command, confirmed this to journalists yesterday.

She identified the passenger as Mr Apampa Adeshina.

Williams said the man was arrested for failure to declare the actual amount on him and his inability to convince the relevant government agencies at the airport about the source of the foreign currency he was travelling with.

She said that the passenger, carrying an international passport with number AO3445111, had been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for further interrogation and investigation.

She said that Adeshina was arrested at the currency declaration desk of the Nigeria Customs Service at the l Airport.

The Customs at the airport also arrested a passenger with $1.1 million while on his way to Kenya last month.