Honest airport officer turns over $2,000

Last Thursday, at the final security screening area of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2, security screening officer Wilfredo Riego Jr. of the Office for Transportation Security discovered a brown envelope left behind by a passenger, containing 20 pieces of $100 cash, or roughly P112,000.

According to the report, the brown envelope was discovered in the shoe bench area close to the x-ray machine. Upon discovering this, SSO Riego immediately informed his duty supervisors, Rudy April Peregrino and Gretchen Abenir, about the envelope.

No passenger went back to the screening area to claim the missing envelope; hence, the trio turned it over on the same date to the NAIA Lost and Found Section, where the airport officials conducted the inventory and documentation of the item.

OTS officer-in-charge assistant secretary Jose Briones Jr. expressed his appreciation for the honesty and integrity exemplified by the screening team.