Snoop Dogg probably can't wait to make it back stateside. On Saturday (August 1), the BUSH rapper was stopped at an airport in Italy for traveling with too much money. Italian police seized, and are still in possession of, half of that massive sum of cash.
This is Snoop's second unfortunate run-in with European officials in less than a week. After performing in Sweden on July 26, he was pulled over, detained and forced to submit to a drug test. He has since spoken at-length about the incident through his Instagram account, claiming to be the victim of racial profiling and vowing to never return to Sweden.
Now he probably won't be returning to Italy anytime soon either. Snoop was stopped, and his possessions taken, during a security check at the Lamezia Terme Airport in Calabria. Italian police soon found that the rapper was traveling with $422,820 of undeclared U.S. cash. The maximum amount of undeclared money one is allowed to bring into Italy is just over $11,000, so Snoop was way over the limit.
After tallying up Snoop's cash, the Italian Finance Police seized just under half of it -- $205,933.
Snoop told police that the cash was intended to pay his band and touring staff throughout his European tour. Police allowed the "Peaches N Cream" rapper to leave the country and jet off to a concert in London but though he had to leave behind over $200,000.
Apparently, the Italian anti-money laundering codes demand that a significant portion (in this case, half) of such undeclared amounts be impounded. If they find the cash to be legitimate, it will likely be returned, although Snoop may be subject to a fine for failing to declare the substantial sum.
