Miss-Honduras Former beauty queen arrested

Honduran police say they arrested Miss Honduras 2009 on charges of money laundering for failing to declare the equivalent of $ 47 000 upon entering the country.

Special services of police in Madrid said the spokesman Alex Belgica Suarez 25 years was arrested with eurosand British pounds on a road near the border with Honduras to Nicaragua. Madrid said the beauty queen failed to declare the money when she crossed the border of the city of Esteli in Nicaragua.

"She said she had earned money working as a model in Europe", Madrid, told The Associated Press.

According to Honduran law, travelers must declare to Customs that they are carrying more than $ 10,000. Suarez was arrested with a Nicaraguan