Rabat – Algerian authorities released Medi1 TV Journalist Jawhara Lakhal on Thursday after she was arrested for carrying €48,000 in undeclared cash.
The journalist, who works for Moroccan television channel Medi1, was arrested on September 13 at Oran Tafraoui Airport for carrying €48,000 in undeclared cash.
The journalist was arrested while she was on her way back to Morocco from a vacation in her native country.
Sources told Moroccan news outlet Le360 on condition of anonymity that the journalist had been released. However, the journalist is not allowed to leave Algeria yet.
Medi1 TV has not issued a press release on the arrest of the journalist.
Le360’s sources did not say whether Algerian authorities seized the journalist’s passport during her arrest.
Authorities opened an investigation to examine the circumstances of the seized cash.
According to Algerian news outlets, the money was the single largest seizure authorities have seized among more than €1,200,000 seized since the beginning of September.
The journalist is a graduate from the Institute of Journalism of Algiers. She began her career in Algeria before moving to Abu Dhabi.
The journalist then joined Medi1 TV in 2006.
