A massive drugs bust in Colombia has exposed an international smuggling scam in which poor and unemployed young people are paid to swallow capsules of so-called dirty money.
Colombian authorities, working with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, arrested 27 people from across four smuggling networks, reports Reuters. The suspects, detained at El Dorado airport in capital Bogata on Thursday, are accused of ingesting cash in order to sneak it into the South American nation from Mexico.
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