International outrage continues to mount over Manila Airport's bogus bullet scam.
For years there, security screeners has been extorting innocent passengers of their money through terror of false arrest by secretly planting bullets in their luggage whilst they’re disembarking.
Since 911, weapons and ammo are banned on all passenger planes, and finding even one un-discharged bullet on somebody’s person or in their bags could see them jailed indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism.
That’s why Manila Airport’s screening scam has proven so successful, obviously -- foreign tourists caught up in the scheme don’t relish spending even a minute in the third-world country’s prison system.
Investigators say the well-organized racket has bilked hundreds of frightened travelers of an untold fortune in bribery fees that the victims had no choice but to pay if they wanted to return safely to their homelands.
In fact, it’s been going on for such a long time that many airline passengers have resorted to elaborately taping and sewing their suitcases in advance, so they don’t fall prey to the extortionists.
And yet they still do!
Eponymous Rox
Criminal Fraud, Extortion
