2 airport screeners probed for taking Chinese’s P9,000
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:33:45 +0000
Airport police are probing two screening officers of the Office for Transportation Security after a Chinese national complained that his peso bills worth P9,000 were forcibly taken from him before he boarded his flight to Iloilo last Wednesday.
Based on a complaint lodged at the NAIA Airport Police Office, passenger Qunxing Wu, 35, of Fujian Province, China, was at the final security check of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 4 when two “uniformed” male individuals ordered him to put his cellphone and wallet in a basket.
When Wu cleared the X-ray check, he was asked by the two security personnel to open his wallet which, at that time was containing more than P19,000.
The two OTS security detail reportedly told the Chinese national that he cannot bring to his flight to Iloilo local currency that exceeds the amount of P10,000.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas regulations only prohibit the bringing in or taking out of the country peso currency not exceeding P50,000.
In the complaint, it was alleged that the security men took the R9,000 without issuing any receipt to Wu.
Since Wu cannot communicate in English, he immediately called a Filipino-Chinese relative in Manila and asked the relative to report the incident to airport authorities.
Wu later boarded AirAsia flight Z2-309 bound for Iloilo which was delayed by more than an hour.