Million dollar Free Zone “shopping’ trip spoiled.
A Colombian couple living in Punta Pacifica were planning something more than window shopping” in Panama’s Free Zone.
When officers from the Drug Prosecutor's Office dropped by, they seized more than a million dollars which the couple said was for a trip to Duty Free stores. With the cuffs on a they got instead a quick trip to the local un-free zone, the local lock up.
Across the city another million dollars, wrapped in small black passages was found at Albrook Airport on a plane with U.S. registration. The American pilots were posing as United States government officials.They were arrested along with two Colombians and two Panamanians