Nearly a million euros in cash seized during traffic stop; Men held for money laundering
The police arrested two men on suspicion of money laundering in Nieuwegein last Thursday. After following a suspicious car, the officers caught one man handing a bag to another. The bag contained 966,000 euros in cash.
Shortly before the handover, officers noticed a vehicle with German license plates behaving suspiciously on the A2. They decided to follow the car when it left the highway near Nieuwegein and turned into a residential neighborhood.
The driver of the car turned out to have a meeting with another man. The second man retrieved a large bag from a house and handed it to the driver.
The officers thought this suspicious and decided to stop the two men for a check. They found two bags containing money and several loose stacks of banknotes, totaling nearly a million euros in cash.
The police arrested the two men, a 50-year-old from Bulgaria and a 37-year-old from Lithuania, on suspicion of money laundering. They are in custody for questioning and further investigation.
The money and the car were seized.
