*ISLAMABAD – **In a huge embarrassment, Mexican Ambassador caught redhanded stealing $10 book from a bookshop.*
*The Mexican ambassador to Argentina was recalled over an allegation ofshoplifting.*
In a rather bizarre case, Oscar Ricardo Valero Recio Becrra was recalled onDecember 9 after reports that he tried to steal a $10 biography on Casanovafrom El Ateneo bookstore in Buenos Aires on October 26.
In the video, Becerra can be seen with a newspaper under his right arm, hethen picks up a book and appears to put it inside the newspaper.
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Local media reported that he then dropped the newspaper off in a lockerarea where customers can keep their belongings. He then went back into theshop and bought some CDs. However, when he then allegedly tried to walk outof the shop with the newspaper the alarms went off and the security guardsstopped him.
As he could not produce a receipt for the book the ambassador wasreportedly kept in the shop until the police arrived.
