Nepal removes airport workers’ pockets to combat bribes
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Staff at Nepal’s main international airport are to be issued with trousers without pockets, in an attempt to wipe out bribe-taking, according to a BBC report. The country’s anti-corruption body said there had been growing complaints about staff at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan airport.
A spokesperson was reported saying that the new trousers would help the authorities “curb the irregularities”.
The BBC reported that almost all incidents of petty corruption have been directed at Nepalese travellers rather than tourists.
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