Flight attendant arrested had $ 110,000 in cash and jewelry (stolen)
If you think that pilots and flight attendants are not checked between flights you are wrong, they too [...]
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If you think that pilots and flight attendants don't come checked between flights you are mistaken, even they do not have to carry bottles of very dangerous water on board beyond the 100ml.
A flight attendant, Laura Diana Schulz, was stop in Buenos Aires for being in possession of goods unreported, Was found with:
- over 11,ooo dollars in cash but also Argentine pesos, Colombian pesos and old coins
- 2.2 kg of gold divided into 3 ingots
- three vintage clocks: 2 Rolex and 1 Audemars Piguet
- Five rings, one brooch, four bracelets and two necklaces
From an initial assessment, the amount would be around the 111,000 of value that Schulz attempted to export outside Argentina to the States, precisely from Buenos Aires to Miami.
Let's face it, international smuggling is a practice widespread, They even did a series about it on DMAX called "Airport Security," who hasn't seen it?
It is not uncommon for even flight attendants to succumb to the possibility of doing some EASY MONEY, if it is not narcotics, for which there are consequences very severe, but valuable assets unreported As in this case, the risk is still low, at most a fine and perhaps temporary seizure of the items and/or money.
We have covered this topic before, when Two travelers hid $50,000 in the soles of their shoes on their way to Dubai. In that case there was a fine and temporary seizure of the money.
There are rules very precise about how much cash and what and how many valuable assets you can carry on board and how to declare them, each state has its own legislation but in general the rules are quite similar in all countries.
Laura Diana's justification
Initially, the flight attendant, at the service of American Airlines for as long as 28 years, he made no statement. He later said that all the money was his property and that the jewelry came from a'legacy family.
This could be a plausible excuse, except that subsequently the following were discovered chat of Whatsapp where clearly everything was being organized; besides the fact that there was no evidence Of a recent legacy.
The icing on the cake is that some items have been paintings of black to try to hide the gold underneath, certainly not a move that someone with nothing to hide would make.
Schulz will hardly risk her career for this fact, probably the maximum penalty will be a fine, no big deal. Flight attendants are checked in a separate area from regular passengers, and let's face it, unless it's serious, it often closes more than a eye When doing the checks.
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