Woman charged after €32,000 in cash and jewellery found in luggage

Police arrested a Vietnamese woman for illegal stay and took her to the Mennogia detention centre, where a search found her carrying thousands of euros in cash and jewellery. She could not give a sufficient explanation for where the property had come from, and was subsequently also charged in court.

The woman came to Cyprus in 2017 and spent five years in the occupied north before moving to the government-controlled areas and settling in Limassol. According to her own account, she cleaned up...