By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A HAITIAN man was fined $1,000 yesterday after admitting he failed to declare that he was travelling to Haiti with more than $40,000.
FanFan Derice, 43, was stopped at LPIA for suspicious behaviour and failed to declare to a Bahamas Customs officer that he was travelling with over $10,000 at around 8am on December 2.
Derice pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to declare before Senior Magistrate Kara Turnquest Deveaux.
He was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine or risk six months in prison.
While $3,600 was returned to the defendant, the remaining $38,615 was forfeited to the Crown.
Inspector K Wilkinson was the prosecutor.
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