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RAWALPINDI: Custom officials arrested model and actor Ayyan from Islamabad airport on Saturday allegedly for money laundering, Express News reported.
Ayyan was caught with $500,000 which she was allegedly smuggling to Dubai.
The supermodel has been sent on a 14-day judicial remand to Adiala jail.
Further, a special customs court has admitted a plea seeking Ayyan’s bail.
Ayyan was set to board an Emirates airline to Dubai and according to Airport Security Force did not declare that she was carrying a large sum of money.
A money laundering case has been filed against her and she will soon be presented to a court.
Ayyan recently moved to Europe where she is working on taking up a new career in music.
Read: The allure of Ayyan
In 2011, renowned singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was arrested by Indian authorities for carrying a large amount of undeclared foreign currency.
Read: Rahat freed but faces currency probe
Twitter reacts
So this model Ayyan is arrested looks like they're shooting Wolf of Wall Street Pakistani version
— Kamran (@mkamranhamid) March 14, 2015
@SundusRasheed how did she launder it?
— ali khurshid (@alikhurshid) March 14, 2015
Ayyan could have just sung a song to the custom officials and they would have let her go. #torture.
— Natasha (@OhTripe) March 14, 2015
who's Ayyan and like me she also doesn't like the banking system...
— HawkesBay (Løuche) (@HawkesBay) March 14, 2015
*keep it under the mattress, sister
Does modelling pay you enough to travel around with $500,000 in cash? #Ayyan
— Umair Javed (@umairjav) March 14, 2015
Is Ayyan really arrested from Isb Airport?
— Waqas Habib Rana (@waqas464) March 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/khalidkhan787/status/576651158623768576
Ayyan: Haye me mar gaeee pic.twitter.com/t71OMBrYxV
— Saim Qureshi (@msaimq) March 14, 2015
Is this news about Ayyan true?
— Hassan Sheheryar (@HSYCOUTUREKING) March 14, 2015
Well Ayyan wasn't lying when she sang Making Dollars
— ∞̵̡̞̙̬͔̞͓̯̗̫̮̰̹̝̓̒̃͊̇̈́͝ (@spopalzai) March 14, 2015
Hear her song here:
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