Nse Ntuen,Akwa Ibom LGA Chairman Arrested For Smuggling $82,000 Into USA
The Maryland State Police Department, USA on
Sunday morning confirmed the arrest of the
Executive Chairman of Udim local government
area of Akwa Ibom state, Mr. Nse Ntuen, for
smuggling $82, 000 into the United States without
declaring it with the Customs officials both in
Nigeria and the US.
Nse Ntuen, the Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State
Association of Local Governments of Nigeria
(ALGON), was on Friday arrested by operatives of
the Maryland State Police Department at the BWI
International Airport, Baltimore.
When contacted by our correspondent, Mr. Strike
Thomas, an official of the Maryland State Police
Department at the airport, said that the suspect
only declared $5,000 when he got to the airport,
adding that it was further security checks that
indicated that he was still having some bundles of
US Dollars in his bag.
The official who agreed to be quoted pressed
further that the chairman who flew into the United
Stated from London, United Kingdom was later
taken to their investigation room where an
additional $77, 000 was found in his bag.
It was gathered that Hon. Nse Ntuen accepted that
he truly smuggled the money into the USA with the
aim to use it as donations at the just-concluded
Annual International Convention of the Akwa
Ibom Indigenes in the United States and Canada
which was held at the Marriot Hotel in
Washington, DC.
The suspect was later made to write and sign a
statement where he accepted that he brought in
items which he failed to declared to both the
Nigerian and United States Custom agencies. -
The official, who spoke with our correspondent,
further disclosed that the Akwa Ibom state
ALGON Chairman who was held for over five
hours was later released after the whole $82, 000
he admitted to have smuggled into the country was
confiscated by the Maryland State Police
Department.
Sunday morning confirmed the arrest of the
Executive Chairman of Udim local government
area of Akwa Ibom state, Mr. Nse Ntuen, for
smuggling $82, 000 into the United States without
declaring it with the Customs officials both in
Nigeria and the US.
Nse Ntuen, the Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State
Association of Local Governments of Nigeria
(ALGON), was on Friday arrested by operatives of
the Maryland State Police Department at the BWI
International Airport, Baltimore.
When contacted by our correspondent, Mr. Strike
Thomas, an official of the Maryland State Police
Department at the airport, said that the suspect
only declared $5,000 when he got to the airport,
adding that it was further security checks that
indicated that he was still having some bundles of
US Dollars in his bag.
The official who agreed to be quoted pressed
further that the chairman who flew into the United
Stated from London, United Kingdom was later
taken to their investigation room where an
additional $77, 000 was found in his bag.
It was gathered that Hon. Nse Ntuen accepted that
he truly smuggled the money into the USA with the
aim to use it as donations at the just-concluded
Annual International Convention of the Akwa
Ibom Indigenes in the United States and Canada
which was held at the Marriot Hotel in
Washington, DC.
The suspect was later made to write and sign a
statement where he accepted that he brought in
items which he failed to declared to both the
Nigerian and United States Custom agencies. -
The official, who spoke with our correspondent,
further disclosed that the Akwa Ibom state
ALGON Chairman who was held for over five
hours was later released after the whole $82, 000
he admitted to have smuggled into the country was
confiscated by the Maryland State Police
Department.
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