❓WHAT HAPPENED: Somali couriers moved nearly $700 million in cash through the airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2024 and 2025, raising suspicions of a fraud scheme.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Somali couriers, the former Biden government, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents, and Rep. Jeff Crank (R-CO).
📍WHEN & WHERE: 2024-2025, Minneapolis airport, with routes to Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
💬KEY QUOTE: “Arrest them all. They are criminals!!!” – President Donald J. Trump
🎯IMPACT: The money movements may indicate significant financial fraud and prompt the federal government and Congress to consider stronger financial controls.
Officials report that the volume of cash transported abroad in luggage by Somali couriers departing from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport over the past two years was 10 to 100 times greater than the amounts leaving from other major U.S. airports. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources indicate that recently compiled data reveals an unusually high outflow of funds from Minnesota, which they believe should have triggered alerts during the previous administration—well ahead of the current probes tied to large-scale fraud operations in the Democrat-led state.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has identified and reported close to $700 million in currency carried in luggage by Somali couriers leaving the Minneapolis airport during 2024 and 2025—equivalent to roughly $1 million per day. Certain shipments headed to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, before continuing to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have drawn attention from intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
“It was like a cash ATM draining American dollars and moving them overseas, and nobody in the Biden administration seemed to think anything of it,” one official told the media, speaking on condition of anonymity. “These couriers were openly flaunting what they’ve doing by legally declaring the cash they were taking out.”
Figures show that passengers from Minneapolis carried $342.37 million in declared cash in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025, with national totals expected to exceed these numbers significantly, sources told Just the News.
In 2025, the Minneapolis outflow was 99 percent higher than the declared international cash from airports like Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, or New York’s John F. Kennedy International. It also surpassed Seattle—a key route for Asian travelers—by 90 percent.
For 2024, declared amounts over $10,000 heading abroad from Atlanta and JFK combined represented less than one percent of Minneapolis levels, while Dallas-Fort Worth reached three percent, and Seattle reached six percent. Although compliant with U.S. Customs declaration requirements, the large bundles—occasionally up to $1 million on one flight—frequently prompted concerns among TSA personnel.
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is now examining these massive currency movements as part of an ongoing inquiry into a multibillion-dollar fraud network involving Minnesota’s Somali community. Representative Jeff Crank (R-CO) said on Tuesday night that he believes the Minnesota fraud scandal will embolden Congress to make changes to the law to give federal authorities more power to investigate the exodus of U.S. money to foreign countries.
“It’s embarrassing that Congress hasn’t done this before,” Crank said, adding, “These are financial controls that any company would have on corporate money. Any good company would have it. The board of directors would fire them if they didn’t. I don’t know why in the world we wouldn’t have those kinds of controls.”
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