Myanmar railway staff and police selling train tickets for inflated prices

• Published date: 16 December 2022
• Publication title: Mizzima News

Myanmar rail officials are saying that Mawlamyine to Yangon train tickets are sold out and then selling them on the black market for up to three times their face value.

The official price of a Mawlamyine to Yangon train ticket is 7,050 kyats but passengers are having to buy them on the black market from railway police and railway staff at up to 20,000 kyats.

On the same line ordinary tickets that officially cost 3,550 kyats are being sold for 7,500 kyats.

Currently, many people are choosing to travel by train between Mawlamyine and Yangon by train because people doing the journey by road face very long delays at the Nyaunkharshay X-ray checkpoint, said a train passenger forced to pay over the odds on the black market for a ticket between Mawlamyine and Yangon because there were no tickets available at the box office

After waiting in long queues to buy tickets most passengers were told that the...