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For: EFE
Wednesday, December 4
They arrest a US diplomat for allegedly selling his passport to a refugee
The Turkish Police have arrested a diplomat American at Istanbul airport for having allegedly sold his passport to a passenger of Syrian nationality that he wanted to fly to Germany, according to several Turkish media reported this Wednesday.
According to the NTV station, Syrian citizen RS was also arrested but later released by the judicial authorities, while the American DJK, who worked in the consulate of his country in Beirut and would have received $ 10, dollars for his diplomatic passport, he is in preventive prison .
Images of recordings from the airport security cameras show how the two passengers talk for a while in a waiting room and then enter a bathroom nearby d where the diplomat would have given his personal document to the migrant in exchange for money.
During the searches of the two passengers, who also changed their clothes apparently not to be recognized, the Police were seized from the US diplomat’s passport and $ 10, 000 dollars in an envelope, reported the daily Hürriyet.
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