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Supermodel Ayyan sent to Adiala jail for 'smuggling' $500,000

Ayyan sent on 14-day judicial remand after being caught at Islamabad airport

Web Desk March 14, 2015

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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...

*keep it under the mattress, sister
— HawkesBay (Løuche) (@HawkesBay) March 14, 2015

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:

COMMENTS (21)

Basym | 9 years ago | Reply She's just a puppet we want full network traced and put behind bars with full justice to Pakistan and also be prosecuted for corrupting the culture of the nation by such songs n modelling.

Indian Observer | 9 years ago | Reply @ Proud Punjabi LOL .

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Critic | 9 years ago | Reply @proud punjabi: Man, that was just horrible

Aleem | 9 years ago | Reply It seems she is visiting a lawyer's office. I dont see any police force or airport.....

Kanfuzed | 9 years ago | Reply This happens when you don't bribe..

proud punjabi | 9 years ago | Reply Man! I need to start a laundry bussiness if I can earn so much money from laundering!

JSM | 9 years ago | Reply Mr Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was detained in February 2011 when taking USD124,000 out of India. There is need for better understanding of currency laws by Pakistanis.

Mirza | 9 years ago | Reply Keep the money and let her go. She is moving her assets overseas like most civil and military officials. She just could not do it "properly" like others.

Malik | 9 years ago | Reply Ayah should have sought advice from owners of HDS, ARY and Bahria properties of how to transfer billions without getting caught. She will now have to lay it on line---- u know what

The Khan-Waterloo,Ontario | 9 years ago | Reply $500,000?? God is very unfair sometimes. I am in final stages of completing my thesis for honors in biochem and i am fully aware that it would take me years and years before reaching that amount and here is Ayaan, getting 500,000 at the age of 19 based on her looks. I wish i was handsome enough

Ali | 9 years ago | Reply People are saying Ayan was smuggling $$$ for rehman malik, meanwhile rehman malik;s brother bailed out rehab from jail today as welk

Umair Waheed, IBA Khayban e Hafiz | 9 years ago | Reply Probably one day's hard work ;) gone down the drain. The prisoners in Adiala should be proud. Atleast now shift her to a men's jail cell.

Atheist_Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply Whatever the case, it's damn impressive she managed to earn so much while working in Pakistan. Look at all these engineer/doctors get paid in Pakistan, peanuts compared to super models! Amazing! Respect for Ayyan.

Irfan | 9 years ago | Reply Even at British immigration , you cannot travel with more than £ 10,000 , even if you are a billionaire . The main reason behind is to avoid Money Laundering and discourage tax evasion . She was transferring the money illegally to avoid tax levy . Greed is curse . By paying few thousand dollars in taxes , her all money was going to be white . What a shame and what a greed.

ahsan | 9 years ago | Reply The person on whose name this airport is and their family laundred billions of $$$ and custom officials kept sleeping....and now they are capturing these little fishes...

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply Zaradri and Sharif become President and PM, and Ayyan goes to jail???????

Lobster | 9 years ago | Reply When the man who admitted money laundering can become minister, why not she launder it too?

Parvez | 9 years ago | Reply ....but if you are SOMEBODY you can shift millions with no one asking.

omair | 9 years ago | Reply Looks like after politicians, media and law enforcement agencies, even supermodels are correct. On the top, Rehman Malik's brother is also involved in this laundering.

usman | 9 years ago | Reply and now ladies and gentleman we would see the whole nation asking her how she earn that much money, maybe that's her life saving and she is running out of this chaotic country never to return back whatever the case its her money let her do what she likes keep it,take it,burn it

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply now put her in jail.

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