Nigeria, Feb. 11 -- An officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Tuesday told the Federal High Court in Lagos how an Austrian national, Kavlak Onal, was intercepted with $800,575 and €651,505 in undeclared cash at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja.

Mr Onal is standing trial before Judge Yelim Bogoro on two counts of failure to declare the funds, contrary to Section 3(5) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition and Prevention) Act, 2022.

Testifying as the first prosecution witness, Yusuf Suleiman, a profiling officer with the NCS at the airport, said the defendant was stopped on 16 December 2025 while preparing to board an Emirates flight to Dubai.

According to him, a protocol officer had approached him at...