on 2/3/06 3:30 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> If Leon was arrested entering Switzerland, then he certainly did not
> pay a bribe, but a fine to the court. It's not impossible that if he
> was caught exiting Spain without declaring the money,

That's what happened.

>that he did 
> pay a bribe after being arrested,

That too. Billy Clayton and Shannon Dickson flew to Madrid with a briefcase
full of money which they handed over to some officials to get him out. I
don't know why the officials didn't just take the money Leon was trying to
smuggle. Maybe it was insufficient.

>but it's more likely that he would
> also have paid a legitimate fine to the Spanish court just as he
> would have in Switzerland (or the U.S., where penalties for failure
> to declare can be catastrophic -- they can seize all the money/etc
> not declared).

The way I heard the story from Shannon, it didn't sound legitimate. Shannon
didn't think it was.




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