#020 : Corruption? Corporate Crime? This HAS to be illegal!

Sydney Morning Herald, 30/10/06, p.18

Joel and Kelly Crawford pass on this email from a friend in Zimbabwe: "I am in the processes of going over to the UK on some much-deserved leave. I bought my ticket on Air Zimbabwe last week for 401 million dollars, old money.

Today the same ticket is now costing 1.7 billion dollars! On top of that, you must also pay Us$53 cash before they will give you the ticket. As I have just spent five nights in jail because I was holding foreign cash, one wonders how anyone can legally buy an air ticket in Zimbabwe? According to the new law, you are not allowed to hold any foreign cash, so everyone in future that gets on to a non-domestic flight in this country is actually breaking the law. But they cannot get a ticket unless they break the law."