Snoop Dogg stopped from boarding plane with £270k cash
Snoop Dogg has been stopped by police at an Italian airport while carrying $422,000 (£270,000) in cash.
The rap star was travelling though an airport in Calabria, where he had been performing, when he was stopped while boarding his private jet at Lamezia Terme, reports CNN.
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Sums of more than €10,000 (£7,000/$11,000) must be declared by anyone travelling through airports in the European Union.
Italian police seized half of the $422k on Saturday under money laundering laws.
It is likely he will now receive the money back, with a fine deducted.
According to the BBC, Andrea Parisi, a lawyer representing the artist, told Reuters: "We clarified everything from a legal point of view. The money came from concerts he had performed around Europe. There was no crime; it was just an administrative infraction."
The news comes after Snoop was stopped by police in Uppsala, Sweden, last week on suspicion of possessing drugs.
He called the incident a case of "racial profiling". Swedish police say they are waiting to receive the results of tests to see whether Snoop Dogg had drugs in his system.
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