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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -Former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said on Friday that he had been “unjustly” detained at the Central American nation’s Toncontin international airport for carrying $18,000 in cash, which he said was not his.
FILE PHOTO: Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya smiles upon his arrival at Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera/File Photo
“I don’t know the origin of that money. Obviously someone must have put it in my belongings. 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,” Zelaya told local media.