Julio Iglesias arrested at the airport for carrying… too much food!

Last week, the singer was checked in the Dominican Republic by airport authorities with 42 kilos of food in his suitcases.

The king of “Latin lovers”, Julio Iglesias, the Latin singer who sold the most records in the world, was arrested on January 10 at the airport of Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, for having transported too large a quantity of food in his suitcases, as reported by the Spanish daily La Vanguardia.

In the Spanish crooner’s suitcases, 42 kilos of food of all kinds, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cherries, tomatoes, beets, celery, beans, spinach, arugula, but also meat and mushrooms. The healthiest foods, but not really to the taste of the Dominican authorities in a country where it is forbidden to import food products for “avoid the spread of pests harmful to local crops”.

A case that attracts more attention than tax evasion

“It’s not specifically for him or anyone in particular, it applies to everyone”said the Minister of Agriculture of the Dominican Republic, Limbert Cruz, regarding the control carried out on the Spanish singer, from whom several kilos of food were confiscated.

However, the singer’s entourage indicates that it was not an arrest, that it was exaggerated by the media and that it must be put into perspective. Because this affair is taking an international turn. One wonders if we will not have talked more about Julio Iglesias about this story of arugula and mushrooms on an airport carpet than when his name was mentioned in the Pandora papers and in the Panama papers, two major tax evasion cases.