Five foreigners engaged in illegal dollar trading in the black market, have been taken into custody.

This was revealed by the Maldives Immigration department in a post on social media platform ‘X’ on Thursday.

According to immigration, the five foreigners were caught during an operation officials of immigration and Maldives Police Service (MPS) jointly conducted on Thursday.

The raid stemmed from intel received by the task force.

The department added that a hefty amount of cash and debit as well as credit cards were confiscated as part of the raid.

Further investigations are presently underway in connection with the case.

Immigration revealed that those arrested are in their custody.

This comes at a time a Bangladeshi man who arrived at Velana International Airport (VIA) for departure recently was caught attempting to smuggle hefty amounts of dollars out of Maldives.