Snoop Dogg cash confiscated by Italian customs
Rapper and actor Snoop Dogg has learned an expensive lesson after failing to declare a huge amount of cash at an Italian airport.
En route to the UK by private jet, Snoop was stopped at Lamezia Terme airport in Italy after trying to travel with $422,000 stuffed into two bags.
Due to European anti-money laundering laws, any traveller is required to declare any amount over 10,000 euros in cash.
Authorities initially confiscated the money before returning about half the amount before the 43-year old, real name Calvin Broadus, flew on to London.
The remaining money will be returned minus an appropriate ‘fine,’ Italian financial police said.
Snoop was briefly detained while customs officers counted the money but no crime is being investigated.
His lawyer, Andrea Parisi, said the money came from a series of concerts during his current European tour.
"There was no crime; it was just an administrative infraction", Parisi said.
It follows another run-in with law enforcement just days ago in Sweden.
He was detained on suspicion of possessing drugs by police in Uppsala, an incident Snoop described as ‘racial profiling.’
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