

I gave in to him in the end by giving 500000 dong. “I didn’t know what to do or whom to ask for help and I was also rushing for my flight. I asked him for what but he just kept pointing to what he wrote. He was holding my passport and asking for it. He wrote, “I was at Hanoi’s airport immigration departing to Singapore today when this immigration officer wrote ‘tips’ on my air ticket. In particular, Kugan Pillai on Monday wrote on his Facebook account that he was demanded a tip by a Vietnamese immigration officer.


The department also worked with relevant units and the Singaporean traveler, who had shared the case on his Facebook account.Īfter receiving the news from the police at the airport, the department required its subordinates to initiate an investigation into the case and impose strict sanctions on the immigration officer if the information is true. The Vietnam Immigration Department has suspended an immigration officer at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi as the officer was accused of asking for a tip from a Singaporean passenger, a departmental leader said on Thursday.
