{"id":3284,"date":"2013-04-26T16:33:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2013-04-26T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:33:44","slug":"heathrow-security-workers-sacked-for-stealing-entrance-fee-money-for-vip-lounge-popular-with-david-beckham-and-rihanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=3284","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow security workers sacked for stealing entrance fee money for VIP lounge popular with David Beckham and Rihanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Heathrow airport security workers have been fired for allegedly stealing the entrance fee for the exclusive VIP lounge used by leading celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>The staff are accused of taking bribes to let travellers escape the \u00a31,800 fee to use the service &#8211; which previously could only be used by royalty, diplomats and Heads of State.<\/p>\n<p>On other occasions they apparently took gifts from stars before letting them off without paying the entrance charge.<\/p>\n<p>The VIP lounge service at the airport has been used by David Beckham and Rihanna. However, there is no suggestion they were involved in the scam.<\/p>\n<p>The two employees working in the VIP service were sacked after an internal<\/p>\n<p>investigation was launched,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/4901741\/Heathrow-pair-axed-over-airport-backhanders-probe-into-VIP-stars-tips.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sun<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The exclusive lounge was opened up to paying customers for the first time two years ago to anyone prepared to stump up the hefty fee.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the sacked managers have been reported to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Heathrow airport security workers have been fired for allegedly stealing the entrance fee for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}