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Egyptian Security Official Refutes Claim Airport Workers Open to Bribes

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Security officers check passengers' belongings at the airport of the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, November 6, 2015
Security officers check passengers' belongings at the airport of the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, November 6, 2015 - Sputnik International
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No employee or security officer can take a bribe in the Egyptian airport of Sharm el-Sheikh, according to high-ranking security official of Egypt's South Sinai governorate Maj. Gen. Magdy Moussa.

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CAIRO (Sputnik) — Workers of the Egyptian airport of Sharm el-Sheikh could not accept bribes to avoid luggage inspection due to 24-hour supervision, high-ranking security official of Egypt's South Sinai governorate Maj. Gen. Magdy Moussa told Sputnik on Sunday.

Soon after the crash of Russian Airbus A321 in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on October 31, the US-based Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence firm, published a report saying that security agents at Sharm el-Sheikh airport often accept bribes in exchange for allowing passengers to circumvent checkpoints.

"Talks about bribes are completely wrong. The airport is kept under CCTV surveillance. No employee or security officer can take a bribe — cameras work the clock round," Moussa said.

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He added that the information from these cameras is used in the investigation into the crash of A321, but it will be revealed only after its completion.

A source in the Sharm el-Sheikh airport told RIA Novosti Sunday that a VIP service called Marhaba operates in Sharm el-Sheikh airport, allowing passengers to pay money to go through customs and border control without waiting in the queue, however the security check is still conducted. The source added that Marhaba could be probably classified as bribing by people unfamiliar with this service.

The Russian Airbus A321 operated by the Russian airline Kogalymavia crashed en route from Egypt’s resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. All 224 people on board were killed in what has become the biggest tragedy in Russian and Soviet civil aviation history.

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