Millionaire tour
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The millionaire tour also translated as millionaire walk, is a criminal practice common in some Latin American capital cities.
A passenger
takes a cab (usually at night) and is temporarily kidnapped by the driver. The cab stops nearby to pick up armed miscreants who get in and take the passenger to a variety of ATM
s, maxing out their bank card
at each one. The victim is sometimes taken to his or her own house where he/she is robbed of their personal items and then abandoned under the effects of scopolamine
.
This crime is common due to corrupt administrative practices by the road authorities, resulting in the presence of illegal taxi cab operators which work with the complicity of some members of the police. Criminal gang
s in these cities take advantage of this lack of control and negligence of the authorities and utilize taxi cabs to carry out this criminal practice.
A passenger
Passenger
A passenger is a term broadly used to describe any person who travels in a vehicle, but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination....
takes a cab (usually at night) and is temporarily kidnapped by the driver. The cab stops nearby to pick up armed miscreants who get in and take the passenger to a variety of ATM
Automated teller machine
An automated teller machine or automatic teller machine, also known as a Cashpoint , cash machine or sometimes a hole in the wall in British English, is a computerised telecommunications device that provides the clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public...
s, maxing out their bank card
Bank card
A bank card is a plastic card issued by a bank to its clients that may perform one or more of the following services:* ATM card, card used for transactions at automatic teller machines* Debit card, card linked to a bank account and used for making purchases...
at each one. The victim is sometimes taken to his or her own house where he/she is robbed of their personal items and then abandoned under the effects of scopolamine
Scopolamine
Scopolamine, also known as levo-duboisine, and hyoscine, is a tropane alkaloid drug with muscarinic antagonist effects. It is among the secondary metabolites of plants from Solanaceae family of plants, such as henbane, jimson weed and Angel's Trumpets , and corkwood...
.
This crime is common due to corrupt administrative practices by the road authorities, resulting in the presence of illegal taxi cab operators which work with the complicity of some members of the police. Criminal gang
Gang
A gang is a group of people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word gang referred to a group of workmen...
s in these cities take advantage of this lack of control and negligence of the authorities and utilize taxi cabs to carry out this criminal practice.
External links
- K&R and Extorsion Monitor, June 2006
- Express Kidnapping, May 8, 2006
- MDE armed Robbery, January 28, 2006
- Colombia's fight to end violence, BBC News, June 3, 2006
- Entry 4, Silvana Paternostro, June 19, 2003
- EXPRESS KIDNAPPINGS, Sept 21, 2004