(CNN) - It started when police found nearly $7.2 million
stuffed in eight suitcases at a Panama airport.
Investigators say they suspect the cash, which had been
concealed in hidden compartments in luggage on a flight from Honduras, was
being moved for a powerful cartel, but they haven't said which one.
The money
was mostly in U.S. $100 bills, authorities said.
In a case that highlights the regional impacts of the drug
trade, now Honduran investigators are trying to figure out how the suitcases
slipped by airport authorities, drug police and special investigators at the
Toncontin airport in Tegucigalpa.
Authorities have suspended dozens of officers as they
investigate, Honduran police told CNN affiliate Televicentro.
Panamanian police, who described the suitcase stash as their
largest seizure in years, arrested three Honduran nationals at Tocumen
International Airport.
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