Former President Stopped at Airport With $18,000 in Luggage


Manuel Zelaya, the former president of Honduras, was stopped at an airport in the country's capital on Friday after $18,000 was found in his luggage. He has denied any knowledge of how the money got there.

Zelaya claimed he was "unjustly" detained at Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa as he was trying to make his way to Mexico via a stopover in Houston, Texas. 

Honduran law prevents people taking more than $10,000 in cash out of the country. The rule is designed to control money laundering and trafficking. The money must also be declared to the authorities.

"I don't know the origin of that money. Obviously someone must have put it in my belongings," the former president told Honduran media.

"I have traveled 400 times and I know that you cannot travel with that amount of money. It is necessary to investigate who put that money in my belongings."

On Twitter, he explained why he had been detained: "The reason, a bag of money with $18,000, which is not mine. Now in the presence of the prosecutor."

Yuri Mora, a spokesperson for the Honduras public prosecutor's office, told Reuters that Zelaya had not been detained.

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