CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 25 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
Editor's note: Images and footage of the man's arrest available via Hightail
A 'cash courier' has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for possessing $33,300 of suspected illicit money, which was found in his luggage at Perth Airport in August, 2025.
The money seized from the 40-year-old was among more than $3.2 million of suspected proceeds of crime that the AFP seized from travellers at Perth Airport in 2025.
The man, a West Australian resident, was sentenced in the Perth Magistrates Court last week (16 January, 2026) after previously pleading guilty to possessing money reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime and possessing methamphe...