- The gold was found inside a suitcase by a passerby on Sunday and handed to airport security
CAIRO: A suitcase containing $1.5 million of gold and cash was discovered in the car park of Lebanon’s main airport.
The gold was found inside a suitcase by a passerby on Sunday and handed to airport security, Lebanon’s state news agency reported.
Internal security forces at Rafic Hariri International Airport examined the suitcase and found 14.95 kilograms of gold inside, worth approximately $675,000, along with €632,000 and $170,000 in cash.
The security forces said the suitcase belonged to a Lebanese national who had travelled from Togo to Ethiopia before boarding an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Beirut.
After contacting the suitcase owner, the authorities found that the owner had announced the amount of gold that had been carried, but did not reveal the wads of cash inside the suitcase.
The statement said authorities had arrested the suitcase owner.