Police have responded to the case involving two teenagers, Abdul Bashir and Rabiu Bashir, who were alleged to have been found with $9,734,225 and €664,100 at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos and have transferred it to the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
THISDAY gathered from police sources at the MMA that the Inspector-General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, had delegated a commissioner of police from the Force CID, Abuja to take over the case.
The two teenagers, who claimed to be brothers, were apprehended last Thursday evening at the old domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, when they arrived with the money aboard an Arik Air flight from Kano.
It was gathered that the money was packed in four travelling bags, which the suspects brought into the aircraft as hand luggage without indicating their content to the flight crew.
Their behaviour raised suspicion as they did not declare the money before boarding the aircraft at the point of departure, so a disturbed ground handling worker notified the police who duly arrested them.
The suspects were said to have told the police that they were in Lagos to sell the foreign currencies because of the high exchange rate in Lagos, but another source alleged that the suspects were to travel to Dubai before they were caught.