A customs officer risks a deadly terror attack on a plane bound for Britain – in exchange for a £10 backhander.
Footage obtained by the Sunday Mirror captures the Pakistani aviation
official at Islamabad Airport telling a British traveller he won’t check
his luggage if he pays him the bribe.
He says: “Sort me out and I’ll look after you as well. Give me £10.”
The man’s luggage was later loaded on to an Emirates Boeing 777 with 350
passengers and crew on board, bound for Birmingham via Dubai.
The damning footage has horrified security experts. Philip Baum, editor
of Aviation Security magazine, called for an urgent inquiry and said:
“It is shocking and extremely worrying.”
And the Department for Transport is now demanding the Pakistani authorities take immediate action.
Security at Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto International Airport should be the tightest in the world.
It is the gateway to Europe for terrorists and drug smugglers, many from
neighboring Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of people en route to
the UK pass through it every year.
