Travelers call them airport hawks. Police call them luggage robbers. But whatever their name, they can work at the Boryspil International Airport checking out your bags after you check them in.

"Every ten bag was robbed, every single flight was checked, and only one percent of these incidents were examined," prosecutor Eduard Shevchenko reported in describing the massive features of fraud in the nation's largest international airport in Boryspil.

Celebrities, outstanding businessmen, ambassadors and even students-all have fallen prey to luggage robbers. Passengers reported cameras, jewelry, note book computers and other valuables missing from their checked in cargo after passing the Ukrainian border.

Major air transporters in Ukraine observed more than 11,000 robberies in 2007. Police, hence, has registered just 578 incidents for the same period of time. They have opened criminal acts only in nine cases. After an investigation exposed the staggering differ in reported robberies between the airlines and police, the General Prosecutor's Office last month busted a police squad and six luggage handlers.

"I was waiting 50 minutes for my suitcase," added Kateryna Koval, a victim of baggage robbery after arriving in Ukraine from her trip to Istanbul. "What do you think they were doing all this time? They were pulling things out and now an airport handler somewhere is one camera richer!"

"Luggage robbers do exist, it's an absolute fact. And this is a problem not only of Ukraine. Chaining middle management and lower level personnel, it works on the principles of kinship and joint responsibility," claims investigative journalist Artem Shevchenko.

His TV program "Undercover Agents," echoing British "Dispatches" and America's "60 Minutes," went behind the scenes in Boryspil in December 2008 to trace stolen cameras and PCs. "Undercover Agents" is broadcast on Mondays at 10:30 p.m. on Inter TV channel. Shevchenko investigated that the first serious probe into the "growing trend" was ordered by a parliamentarian whose wife's jewelry was stolen on a flight from Los Angeles.

So, every person, who is going to take a flight, and whatever country it is, has to keep carefully after his luggage and not to leave any valuables in the luggage, but to take them into the plane.