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Aveiro, the mother of Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo, was stopped
at Madrid’s Barajas Airport last month and caught carrying an illegally
large amount of cash as she prepared to fly out of the country, the
newspaper El Mundo reported.
According to The Telegraph,
60-year-old Aveiro, who spends long periods of time with her
multimillionaire footballer son in his luxury mansion outside Madrid,
was held by border police at Barajas after it was found that she had
€55,000 (£40,000) in her hand luggage. Rules against money laundering
state that the maximum travellers are permitted to take out of Spain
without declaring the transfer is €10,000.
Aveiro had not filled out a declaration
form and, according to the Spanish daily, was held by civil guard agents
at the airport for a few minutes while the excess amount of cash was
confiscated. She was then allowed to fly to Portugal with €10,000 in her
handbag.
Aveiro will now be fined at least €600
for the attempt to illegally export cash. By paying the fine, she will
be able to collect the confiscated €45,000.
The
celebrity pages in Spanish newspapers have in the past week been
showing photographs of Ronaldo relaxing on board a yacht owned by
British retail tycoon Sir Philip Green. Having recently separated from
the Russian model Irina Shayk, Ronaldo has chosen to start his summer
holidays in the company of friends such as Miguel Paixao, an old comrade
from Sporting Lisbon’s junior ranks.
According to Portuguese newspaper Correio
de Manhã, Ronaldo and Shayk’s relationship was damaged beyond repair
last Christmas when they rowed over the player’s mother.
The couple were holidaying in Dubai, but
the footballer wanted to travel to his home island of Madeira to
surprise Aveiro on her 60th birthday on 31 December.
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