Millionaire tour

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The millionaire tour (in Spanish Paseo millonario), also translated as millionaire walk, is a criminal practice common in some Latin American capital cities. A passenger takes a cab, this occurs usually at night, and is temporarily kidnapped by the driver, the cab stops nearby to pick up armed miscreants who get in and take the passenger to a variety of ATMs, maxing out their bank card at each one. The victim is sometimes taken to his or her own house where is robbed of their personal items and then abandoned under the effects of scopolamine.

This crime is common due to corrupt administrative practices by the road authorities resulting in the presence of illegal taxi cab operators which work with the complicity of some members of the police. Criminal gangs in these cities take advantage of this lack of control and negligence of the authorities and utilize taxi cabs to carry out this criminal practice.