The requirement to declare any cash sum above €10,000 applies in the international transit zones of airports located within the European Union, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled in a judgement returned on Thursday 4 May (case C-17/16).
In 2010, the Beninese company Intercontinental asked Mr Oussama El Dakkak to carry USD$1.6 million from Cotonou (Benin) to Beirut (Lebanon) by aeroplane, stopping over at the Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport (France). Whilst transiting through this...