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Authorities looking for money in bag, Abidjan

  • 03-09-2014 10:56pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18


    Hey all,

    Wondering if this sound suspicious. I travel a fair bit for work and am familiar with having to state whether you're bringing in or out large amount of currency from a country. In Abidjan however, where I'm sitting now, I was asked by officials at a makeshift desk how much money I had. Now granted my answer was a bit vague, some dhiram, some USD, but I was taken into a room and made to show a senior official my wallet and he searched my bag.

    I genuinely do only have a few dollars, cfa and dhiram and he took nothing, nor looked very hard, but I wonder if I had had more whether he would have helped himself.

    Western Africa does seem to have a fair bit of this, anyone have any experience or advice?

    Sound!

    Zeal


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  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've been in that airport for exit and was asked. I think that the key is to be definite in your answer - 20 usd, 10000 cft etc.


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