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Article: Beijing police nabs 17 train ticket scalpers at beginning of travelseason
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 20, 2008
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Beijing police nabs 17 train ticket scalpers at beginning of
travelseason
BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Beijing police nabbed 17 scalpers
and confiscated 84 train tickets on the second day of the Chunyun,or
Spring Festival travel season, a spokesman said on Sunday.
More than 20 railway police raided some restaurants and telephone
booths around the Beijing West Railway Station on Saturday after
receiving reports, the spokesman said.
Ticket scalpers have turned to restaurants and booths to do their
"business" after the police launched a crackdown on the illegal
practice recently, according to him.
The railway police found 61 tickets in a box at the cash counter
of a restaurant and seven tickets ...
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