Woman swallows $7,000 in attempt to hide cash from husband

Europa

May 5, 2017 10:20 AM

The 30-year-old woman swallowed rolls of $100 bills, doctors have said.

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A woman in Colombia reportedly swallowed at least $US7,000 in a desperate move to hide the money from her husband during a fight between them.

According to doctors who extracted the bills through surgery, the 30-year-old woman swallowed rolls of $100 bills.

In an interview with the local RCN television channel, the woman said she had saved up the money for a holiday with her husband after selling several electrical household items.

Director of Surgery at the University Hospital of Santander, Juan Paulo Serrano, said they were able to surgically extract 57 $100 bills from the woman's stomach and intestines.

He said the majority of the bills were surgically extracted from the stomach. Other rolls would be passed through the colon, he said.

He believed that the rolls were not swallowed for any form of illicit transport because they were not wrapped or packaged.

Dr Serrano said that the rolls were ingested in an "act of desperation".

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