Somalia Seizes Nearly $10M From UAE Plane in Mogadishu
Somali security officials said they have seized a large cache of money that arrived Sunday at Mogadishu airport from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Two senior security officials told VOA Somali three suitcases containing $9.6 million have been put In storage in the central bank of Somalia pending an investigation.
Another security official said Ambassador Mohammed Ahmed Othman Al Hammadi, UAE envoy to Mogadishu, was at the airport to receive the money.
Read more at: https://www.voanews.com/a/somalia-united-arab-emirates-money-seizure/4337888.html
One can read the rest of the story, there is no mention of terrorism or Al Shabaab and a flimsy excuse as to what this money was for...but I do wonder if it could have been for terrorism, Somalia is as poor as dirt to be sending in this kind of dough.
